1984 - part 2 chapter 3

CHARACTERS

Winton

Main character

Male, intelligent, thoughful person, rebellious, curious, hopeful, fearful

Goal: rebell against the government

He hates the government, the Party and the Big Brother; projects his hate on women, but is falling in love with Julia.

Julia

Secundary character; love interest

Female, intelligent, planner, experient, rebellious

Goal: rebell against the government, doesn't matter if it is in a silent way

Katherine

Winston's wife

they were still married, but not together

"goodthinkful"

"naturally orthodox, incapable of thinking a bad thought"

Goal: serve the Party and be a good member

SETTING

Where does the story takes place?

It starts with them leaving the clearing and planning on their next meeting

They see each other at a market to plan where they can meet

a crowded place where it's easier to talk

abandond church

bombed a few years back and left; they have privacy and can talk without fearing others (but still eventually looking out to see if there is someone coming)

Time

May

Sensory detail

church

"It was a blazing afternoon. The air in the little square chamber above the bells was hot and stagnant, and smelt overpoweringly of pigeon-dung."

Julia

chracteristics - Winston finally gets to know her

26 years old, lives in a hostel with other 30 girls, worked on the novel-writing in the Fiction Department.

She didn't care much for reading, was inveted to work in the Pornosec and worked there for a year

"The teory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filfh they handled."

had been troop-leader in the Spies, then Youth League, than she joined the Anti-Sex League

Had her first affair when she was 16, with a Party Member that was 60.

he commited suicide to avoid getting arrasted - that was good for her, because she thought he was weak and would give her up

"She hated the Party (...) but she made no general criticism of it"

Winston was different, he cared and he kept record, he tried not to forget and he trusted himself - she is selfcentered, he cares for the future

"Life as she saw it was quite simple. You wanted a good time; 'they', meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could. She seemed to think it just as natural as 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught."

Katherine

after Julia asks Winston about his ex-wife they make a few observations about the role a relationship takes for the Party and what they expect

a relationship that's exciting takes your attention from the Party, you are no longer excited about the government events because you have something else that can make you happy/excited

you are no longer exclusive to the Party

"The sex impulse was dangerous for the Party"

they portrait the physical attraction as an act against the government

parenthood
the idea of a family could be abolished, but it's concept couls be changed

"The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police"
the Party has control over everyone, including the ones that in a normal context should always be by your side.

present Winston hated her

he believed if she had paid attencion to him she could have noticed his orthodoxy opinions and would have denounced him

he had an opportunite to kill her, but didn't and wasn't completely sure if he would

he believes killing her wouldn't make much of a difference, because it wouldn't matter, the Party would always be the one with control and wining

"'We are dead' - he said."

the people are bodies, always available for the Party to use the way they want to, making changes, killing, manipulating
the only reason they are alive is the Party, which is also the only reason they are killed - they serve the Party and its identity