7/29/2023 0 Comments Winston smith character traitsSuperficially, Julia seems like an uncomplicated character. Separating the couple diminishes their effectiveness: As individuals they do not understand the party wholly, nor are they capable of resistance. But not until their love was strong did the Party intervene. Both had been watched for years and could have been captured at any time. Note that the couple was caught at their happiest moment, the moment where they let down their guard and felt like an ordinary couple. When Julia and Winston fall in love, they commit the ultimate offense against the Party. Julia uses sex to attack the Party, but it is far less effective a weapon than love. She busies herself with getting around the Party, unlike Winston, who wishes to attack the Party at its center. While Winston is emotional about the Party and its potential downfall, Julia feels his wishes are merely fantasy and is apathetic to the Party's dogma. She understands the Party better than he does and is more cunning in the ways that she defies Party doctrine. Julia is far more intuitive and realistic than Winston. His rebellion is as much for future generations as it is for himself her rebellion is purely incidental to her own desires. She does not do this to destroy the Party but to quench her own desires, and that is the fundamental difference between Winston and Julia. ![]() While Winston enjoys sex and intimacy, Julia is an outwardly sexual being and sleeps with Party members regularly - at least before she meets Winston. Her demeanor is that of a zealous Party follower, but just under that thin surface is an individual with unchecked human desires and a willful spirit, which ultimately results in her capture. While Winston simply manages to survive, Julia is a true survivalist, using any means necessary to conduct her self-centered rebellion. She represents the elements of humanity that Winston does not: pure sexuality, cunning, and survival. Thematically, D-503’s fate suggests that human urges are impossible to suppress fully they cannot be prohibited out of existence and must be removed by force.Julia is Winston Smith's love-interest and his ally in the struggle against Big Brother. At the end of We, D-503 is forced to undergo the Operation, abolishing his capacity for imaginative thought and free will, and prompting him to turn in I-330 and MEPHI to the Guardians. On the one hand, he trusts in the superiority of logic, rationality, and subservience however, his so-called “ hairy paws” serve as a constant reminder of the “barbaric,” pre-One State blood that pulses through his veins, and his alliance with I-330 repeatedly shows how capable and willing he is to break free of the One State’s rules and act on his natural, animalistic impulses. Ultimately, D-503’s confused state reflects his ambivalence toward the One State. As I-330’s influence on D-503 grows, his writing relies more heavily on metaphor and other figurative language, and it becomes harder for him to tell the difference between dreams and reality. He starts to conceive of himself as two people: his “real,” subservient self, and this new, “other” self that wants to rebel, love, and be an individual. ![]() ![]() After D-503 and I-330 are intimate, D-503 becomes “sick,” gaining a greater perspective on his unique, internal life and suffering from imaginative thoughts and repressed desires. Once he meets I-330, however, his structured, settled life begins to unravel as he becomes increasingly infatuated with and unsettled by her shameless disobedience to the One State and begins to torturously question his own subservience to the government. He is content in his relationship with O-90, a female cipher the State has assigned to him as a sexual partner. He espouses the rationality, predictability, and “settledness” the One State enforces, and he is happy to be part of a system that values the needs of the collective over the desires and needs of individuals. In the beginning of We, D-503 is obedient to the One State’s authoritarian rule. He is a mathematician and rocket engineer, and the lead designer of a rocket called the Integral. ![]() D-503 is the narrator and protagonist of We, which is the resultant compilation of his carefully composed records, or journal entries.
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