Week 9- Character Analysis

Character Analysis – Part 3, Chapter VI- Julia

Julia portrays Winston’s rebellious love interest. Throughout the story of 1984, Julia revealed being defiant in her risky ways was an act of nonconformity towards the Party and Big Brother. But in Part 3, Chapter 6 Julia surrenders her defiant methods to secure her own safety and not Winston’s implicitly revealing Julia’s detached and selfish character.  Julia’s cruel hardship revealed her dark character. Julia states “You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.” Julia’s statement emphasizes indirectly her lack of sacrifice to save her own will above others. Within her lines Julia reveals her threatening character of “true colors”. “She made no response whatever to the clasp of his arm; she did not even try to disengage herself. He knew now what had changed in her. Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change… She did not actually try to shake him off, but walked at just such a speed as to prevent his keeping abreast of her.” Julia’s brutal torment and misery uncovered a sense of emotional detachment; a detachment away from Winston. Julia’s characterization emphasizes torment can refine a person negatively.