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Winston finds in Julia a fellow thoughtcriminal (as well as a sex criminal); they decide to live life to the fullest while dodging the Party whenever possible. Over the next several months, they arrange to meet and have recreational sex – something forbidden by the Party – in a variety of places outside London.
Julia enjoys her small acts of rebellion and has no interest in giving up her lifestyle. O'Brien: A mysterious character, O'Brien is a member of the Inner Party who poses as a member of The Brotherhood, the counter-revolutionary resistance, to catch Winston. He is a spy intending to deceive, trap, and capture Winston and Julia.
Winston meets a mysterious woman named Julia, a fellow member of the Outer Party who also bears resentment toward the party's ways; the two become lovers. Winston soon gets in touch with O'Brien , a member of the Inner Party who Winston believes is secretly a member of The Brotherhood , a resistance organisation dedicated to overthrowing the ...
In the year 1984, the government of Oceania, dominated by the Inner Party, uses the Newspeak language – a heavily simplified version of English – to control the speech, actions, and thought of the population, by defining "unapproved thoughts" as thoughtcrime; for such actions, the Thinkpol arrest Winston Smith, the protagonist of the story, and Julia, his lover, as enemies of the state.
At the behest of George Orwell's estate, the acclaimed novelist has brilliantly recast his most famous work.
Afterward, Winston goes to a junk shop to wonder at the objects of yesteryear that are now deemed worthless. Julia enters the shop, sending Winston scurrying into the street, where he is stopped by the police and ordered to report to Administration the next morning. Drive-in advertisement from 1956 for 1984 and co-feature, The Gamma People.
Almost 75 years after George Orwell’s “1984” was published in 1949, readers can return to Airstrip One with its Newspeak and Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love and Plenty. It’s the rare ...
The scar could equally have come from the torture/beatings Julia received from the Thought Police, or even by whatever she faced in Room 101 (perhaps suggesting she only betrayed Winston once her particular horror had started, unlike Winston, who betrayed Julia before the rats had actually attacked him).