Describe the relationship between Winston and Julia. Focus particularly on their different worldviews. How are they different from each other? How are the similar?
Julia and Winston have a false relationship or a middle school type relationship if you will. Winston only likes her because she likes him and she only likes him because he is against the party. So really up until Winston got the note from Julia he hated her, but really he only hated her because she was something he couldn't have but as soon as he gets the note he's all like I love her. Winston and Julia though similar because they are both against the party have different world views. They both accept that the party is pretty much invincible. Winston likes the idea of there being a group of the party working for the long run destruction of the party or in other words the Brotherhood. Julia on the other hand really doesn't care, if it doesn't do anything for her than she has no interest in it. She doesn't really care about over throwing the party she just wants to live her life in as exciting a manner as she can. She gets a thrill from undermining the party and thats really all she needs. They are also different in that Winston is much older than julia and he remembers bits of the past before the party. He feels emotion and a connection to his family even though he was not with them very long but he thinks of them. Julia being younger and not having been around before the party doesn't have those thoughts or those connections. She's all about the here and the now and what benefits her. She really doesn't care about what the party says and whether they are wrong or not. Whereas Winston is all about what the party says. Really the only thing they have in common is there dislike for the party.
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i get what you are saying about it being a middle school type relationship but it is there hate foe the party that attracts the two together and because they do not know what true love is they think that they are in love and is some way there hate for the party is love for the other
Well, Daniel I have to agree with Darlene on the point that Julia doesn't remember an earlier time, she really is only rebelling because she likes it, while Winston seems to genuinely love her because he has at least a vague idea of what love might have been like. Needless to say this is still one of those awkward relationships between some old guy and a young girl. But, when I look at this I think that it actually does resemble a relationship, any kind at that. It all starts out as the guy hating the girl or something to that extent, while the girl is almost always secretly in love with the guy, and then once they're together they are head over heels in love, when they hated each other in the beginning. Although they are probably together mostly because they hate the party, I think that they do have somewhat of a normal relationship.
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