Julia and Winston are so compatible and yet they differ in many ways. As Orwell has conveyed, Julia is strong minded and an enemy of the party. Winston is also an enemy of the party but they have different goals. Winston is also less experienced in his rebellion. Where Winston is concerned with the past and future, Julia is concerned with the present and so their attitudes towards the party are also different,
Julia, as Winston has said is “only a rebel form the waist down.” She is not concerned with the party and its policies as long as she can get around them and they don’t directly affect her life. This makes her a rebel with personal goals. She realizes that the party alters the past and restricts people’s emotions and actions, but since they don’t directly affect her, she is indifferent.
Winston on the other hand struggles to understand why the party does what it does. He knows that the party has changed the past but he wants to know why. Why do they claim to have invented airplanes? How did the world come to this? And what was it like before? Unlike Julia, he wants answers and he thinks that Goldstein’s book, given to him by O’Brien will give him these answers.
Although Winston and Julia differ in there ideas and feelings towards the party, they love each other and they combine there ideas to have a common goal. That goal is to, by any means possible, destroy the party or at least try. They know that at the end they will be caught, but that is a risk they are willing to take.
2 comments:
I like the idea you addressed, and how it these two almost opposites came together against the party.
I feel like the introduction is too much though... the later part of it seems more like support that you could add into a bigger paragraph. Also, I think your support could be more developed, with good imagery, vocab, and analysis; the conclusion should be more conclusive, rather than introducing ideas in the last sentence.
Your intro has been writen well, I like how you used the word 'conyey'ed. :) Yay for efectiveness.
This is a great post, you addressed a great idea. Again though you are missing an attention getter, you just started with your thesis. Great body format and good information, great job.
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