Julia

It's interesting to me how Julia hasn't been caught by the Ministry of Truth yet. Winston makes it seem as if as soon as you commit even the smallest thoughtcrime you could disappear at any moment, yet somehow Julia has met with "scores of people" without the Party's attention. I wonder if her outward involvement in the Party actually makes as big of an effect as she describes - has the Party just not bothered to look at her or is their surveillance system not as astute as they make it out to be?

It's also interesting how Julia even formed these ideas in the first place. The Party is all she's known her whole life. But somehow all the propaganda and conditioning that she got growing up didn't work. Could she even have negative ideas about the Party if she didn't know about an alternative - didn't know that life could be better and freer? Maybe she heard stories of the world before The Party, since it's hard to imaging her forming such a hard stance against the Party without any outside influence or even the knowledge that there's an alternative. It reminds me of Helmholtz in Brave New World. They both seem to fit in the society the live in, and on the surface function in it just like any other obedient member, yet somehow even through the conditioning they got throughout their childhood they developed opposing or different ideas. How many people could there possibly be like Julia - people who are only pretending to be perfectly orthodox Party members?

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