1984 Character Analysis

Brendan Tuma

Mr. George

World Lit G

14 October 2010

Julia: The Tease Rebel

Julia is a rebellious girl who desires to rebel against The Party by having sex but refuses to go any farther than that, spending most of her life trying to avoid being caught.

            Julia uses her young, attractive body to have sex with many men from the Outer Party. When she knows that somebody is not pleased with The Party she sets out to get to know them and tells Winston that she has done that “scores of times” (Orwell 125). This differs from Winston’s ideology in that Julia is satisfied with her tiny rebellions while Winston wants to take The Party down. Winston wishes that Julia would be more interested in overthrowing The Party but she makes it clear that she is content with her form of rebellion: “She flung herself into his arms, kissed him almost violently, and a moment later pusher her way through the saplings and disappeared into the wood with very little noise” (Orwell 128). Once Julia is satisfied with her rebellion she moves on, continuing to enjoy her day to day life.

            Julia is like a flirt, one who leads another to believe that they are interested in the same thing. A flirt will tease a member of the opposite sex into making them believe they are interested. Julia teases Winston by rebelling a little bit but refusing to go all the way to try and overthrow The Party. Like a flirt would do, this drives Winston mad.

            A modern day counterpart of Julia is Lindsay Lohan. Both have strong sex drives and both of their main goals are to get in trouble and then to avoid being caught. When they get in too far, like Julia with Winston and Lohan with drugs, is when they get caught.

Works Cited

Orwell, George. 1984. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1977.