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Fictional character

Julia is a fictional character in George Orwell'southward 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Lxxx-Four. Her last name is not revealed in the novel but she is called Dixon in the 1954 BBC TV production.^[1]

Julia was built-in in 1958 in Oceania, the super-state combining N America, Due south America, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the British Isles (renamed Airstrip One). Her knowledge of events before the revolution is inaccurate as her granddad, the simply close source to her with that knowledge, disappeared when she was eight. Julia integrated herself into the daily life of Oceania early, becoming an peculiarly zealous propagandist for the Junior Anti-Sex League, the Ii Minutes Detest and Community Heart. She secretly despises the Party and wants to bring together the Brotherhood, purportedly an outlawed arrangement founded by Emmanuel Goldstein. She had her first affair with a Party member at the age of sixteen.

Fictional character history [edit]

A constellation of characters with whom Julia interacts

Julia get-go appears in Nineteen Eighty-Four at the age of 26, an enthusiastic participant in the 2 Minutes Detest directed against Emmanuel Goldstein, a Party co-founder who claims the Revolution was betrayed. At one point, she flings a Newspeak lexicon at the telescreen. Winston Smith, a fellow worker in the Ministry of Truth, is both aroused past Julia'southward beauty and disgusted by her fervour. He recalls that women, especially those Julia's historic period, are among the well-nigh fanatical members of the Party. He fantasises about raping and murdering her, and fears that she is a fellow member of the Thought Police prepared to denounce him.

Later an unspecified corporeality of time (after Winston leaves a shop), Winston spots Julia walking past him. Their gazes run across and Winston, thinking that she is spying on him, contemplates murdering her with a cobblestone. His fear keeps him from doing this.

Iv days subsequently, Winston bumps into Julia on her style from the Fiction Department and receives a small paper from her. In his cubicle at work, he unfolds the notation and reads what Julia wrote: "I love you." Winston makes arrangements with Julia to run into in the oversupply at Victory Square. Winston finds in Julia a young man thoughtcriminal (too as a sex criminal); they determine to alive life to the fullest while dodging the Party whenever possible. Over the next several months, they accommodate to encounter and have recreational sexual activity – something forbidden by the Party – in a diversity of places outside London. The lovers know fully well that they will soon be detected and arrested, and Julia observes that "everybody always confesses. You can't aid it."

When Inner Party fellow member O'Brien drops a hint that he is a fellow member of the mysterious anti-Party Brotherhood, Winston and Julia come to meet him. O'Brien tests their loyalty by request whether she and Winston are prepared to separate and never see each other once again; Julia shouts "No!". Winston agrees with a heavy heart. Days after, when Winston and Julia are staying in the room higher up Mr Charrington's store and have read parts of Goldstein's book, they are arrested by the Thought Police. Charrington, equally it turns out, is a Thought Police agent.

O'Brien is really a Party member and torturer for the Idea Police force. While interrogating Winston, O'Brien claims that Julia caved in immediately to the Political party'due south pressure: "She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately – unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly. You would hardly recognize her if you saw her. All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness – everything has been burned out of her. It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case."

During months of torture and brainwashing, Winston surrenders intellectually, but strives to proceed his innermost eye inviolate: He knows he volition eventually be killed, just secretly he intends to continue hating Big Brother and loving Julia, the only thing keeping him from reverting to a mindlessly loyal Party member. One tiny victory he reserves for his moment of death: The Political party could not change his feelings and make him beguile Julia in his heart.

Nevertheless, Winston'south resolve to continue loving Julia is burned away when he finally enters Room 101. O'Brien threatens to let rats devour Winston'southward face, and in utter agony he begs O'Brien, "Do information technology to Julia!"

Julia is seen one last time in the novel, when she meets Winston later they have both been reintegrated into Oceania society and restored to orthodox thought. They concur zero – not even sex – matters any more, because their feelings for each other are gone. Julia explains to Winston that "sometimes...they threaten you with something – something you tin can't stand up to, can't fifty-fifty remember virtually. And then you say, 'Don't do it to me, exercise it to somebody else, do information technology to so-and-so.' ... And after that, you don't feel the same towards the other person any longer". It is besides suggested that she has been given a lobotomy ("...and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the pilus, across her forehead and temple...").

As the novel closes, Winston discovers that his beloved for Julia has been replaced by love for Large Blood brother – the but class of love that is approved by the Party.

Like Winston, Julia is a smoker. During the matter between them, Julia ambiguously acquires goods such as "real" coffee (every bit the victory coffee is low-stop and basically meant to go on the depression course'southward expectations as low equally possible, as not to cause any satisfaction, eventually equaling in higher intelligence levels, which are not wished as they opposite the principles of ingsoc), tea, breadstuff and milk, theoretically just available to the Inner Party members (every bit opposed to the lower-quality "Victory" brand products consumed by Outer Party members and Proles), luxuries which seem to exacerbate the sense of the affair.

Portrayals in other media [edit]

• Studio I: "1984", television adaptation from 1953: Norma Crane^[2]
• Xix Lxxx-Four, tv adaptation from 1954: Yvonne Mitchell
• 1984, motion-picture show accommodation directed by Michael Anderson in 1956: Jan Sterling
• Theatre 625: "The World of George Orwell: 1984", television adaptation from 1965: Jane Merrow^[3]
• Nineteen 80-Four, movie adaptation directed by Michael Radford in 1984: Suzanna Hamilton
• Actresses who have played Julia in the 2013 Stage Adaptation take included Hara Yannas, Catrin Stewart, Olivia Wilde, and Ursula Mills.
• 1984! The Musical! 2022 Musical: Anna Della Marta^[iv]

References [edit]

General references

• Orwell, George (eight June 1949). Nineteen 80-Four. Various; Secker and Warburg (starting time edition). p. 326. ISBN978-0-14-118776-1.

Inline citations

1. ^ Cooper, Nick (1992–1998). "19 Lxxx-Four – Part 1". Nick Cooper. Archived from the original on eight July 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
2. ^ "Studio One in Hollywood: "1984"". IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
3. ^ "Jane Merrow". IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
4. ^ "1984! The Musical! | New Theatre". 6 November 2019.

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