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“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right” (155).

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“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right” (155).

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The Party literally erased history. The start of the party meant the end of truth, and the only thing that exists is a reality and a history created by the Party. A single ideology rules Oceania undeterred, so anything they says is correct.

The knowledge of history is extremely important for everyone to have a grasp on. History shows us our mistakes in hopes that we don’t continually make the same ones. History shows us our past and leads up to our present. In 1984 the only present that matters is one in which the Party is the only thing that is important and right. History has become insignificant next to the Party and its control.

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“No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act” (126). 

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“No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act” (126). 

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Julia and Winston’s relationship was not pure love, nor was it pure lust. For both of them, it was more about rebelling against Big Brother than it was about pleasure or emotion.

Julia and Winston’s relationship may seem like a blow to the party, but in reality it proves the power of the party. Big brother effectively deprived the citizens of their ability to love and foster pure relationships. The fear and hatred of the party motivated them to pursue a sexual relationship, it was never truly about love or lust. The Party corrupted sex into an act of rebellion.

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“In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds” (135).

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“In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds” (135).

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Winston and Julia are discussing the party and Julia inadvertently reveals her ignorance to what is happening around her. It is in the scene that Winston acknowledges the futility of their relationship and the inevitability of their capture.

Winston knows he cannot defeat Big Brother, and resolves to go out with a bang. As minuscule as it may be, he wants to have some sort of impact in his failure so as to rectify it. This acknowledgement of defeat is important because it shows that even the hero of the story is useless against the will of Big Brother. The party’s power is so absolute that any sort of defiance, large or small, is impossible. Winston and Julia cannot take down Big Brother, but what they can do, what they are trying to do, is influence other dissenters.

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“After all, what did it matter who had invented airplanes?” (154).

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“After all, what did it matter who had invented airplanes?” (154).

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This quote is in reference to the Party’s claim that they invented the airplane, although Winston remembers planes existing prior to the Party.

This quote is important for two reasons. First of all, it further shows how the Party controls the citizens of Oceania. Their ability to manipulate language and history creates a population entirely susceptible to their wishes. Everything is so convoluted that it is nearly impossible to learn the truth. The only reason Winston knows is because he has his own memories to sustain his subjective truth. Secondly, this quote reflects the indifference of the citizens of Oceania, especially the younger generation. Winston tells Julia that she is mistaken in believing the Party’s claim to inventing the airplane, and yet she does not care.

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“She hated the party… but she made no general criticism of it… any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid” (131).

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“She hated the party… but she made no general criticism of it… any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid” (131).

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It is obvious that Julia has contempt for the party; she makes this clear through her illegal relationship with Winston and the words she hurls at Big Brother. However, she has no actual, concrete reason for hating the party and does not believe public rebellion is at all worthwhile.

Julia is a rebel without a cause. She revolts against the party in any way she can, and yet does not want to overthrow it. Having lived her whole life under the party’s regime, she has no concept of what life could be, of what life was. The idea that the party could be taken down is absolutely absurd to her, and ultimately it isn’t change she wants. She is content to live under the repressive hand of Big Brother and rebel in her own, unseen ways.

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“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk” (150).

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“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk” (150).

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The room Julia and Winston share is their own private area, free of the party.

Winston and Julia can live as people used to live before they were repressed by the Party. They cannot be themselves, be true people, anywhere else but in that room. It was a gateway to the past, a gateway to freedom, and gateway to individualism.

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“... and yet she possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her then that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless” (164).

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“... and yet she possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her then that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless” (164).

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In this passage, Winston is talking about his mother. He describes how his mother was in control of her own feelings and actions. He continues on by mentioning how, to his mother, any action that doesn’t have an affect on anything doesn’t matter and is insignificant.

Winston admires his mother because of the control she had over her life. She didn’t let anyone get in the way. His mother managed her own feelings and controlled her own actions despite who may or may not have been watching. She felt as though actions without affect is unimportant. Winston aspires to be like her and to live the way she did. His mother wasn’t afraid, which inspires Winston everyday.

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"It was something in your face. I thought I'd take a chance. I'm good at spotting people who don't belong. As soon as I saw you I knew you were against them."

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"It was something in your face. I thought I'd take a chance. I'm good at spotting people who don't belong. As soon as I saw you I knew you were against them."

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Winston, being older and less physically attractive than Julia, questions why Julia would be at all interested in him. Julia tells Winston that she was able to identify him as a rebel simply by looking at him, and that is why she pursues a relationship.

That barely perceptible feature that Julia claims to see in Winston is what attracts him to her. She does not care about physical appearance or other shallow characteristics, she cares about allegiances and personal feelings. This statement also implies that Julia has met with and possibly  been involved sexually with another rebel to the Party. She considers herself adept at spotting ‘double- thinkers’ and so is reasonable to assume that she has other contacts or is perhaps involved in a great web of rebels. Julia is attracted to Winston because, like her, he is different. Neither of them fit into the extremes of Party life, and she knows that they will both derive pleasure from acting out against the party. She pursues a relationship wholly independent from physical attractiveness and compatibility, and it is the illegality of having sex with Winston that drives her.