Winston writes this in his forbidden diary early in the novel. It reflects his belief that Party members, even rebellious ones, will never be able to overthrow the Party from within, but that such sweeping action would only be possible by the much more numerous, but brutally poor social group made up of the proletarians, or “proles” in the language of the novel.
I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY.
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Winston writes this in his forbidden diary after he has spent some time thinking about the nature of the Party and its control of the population. In some ways this question represents Winston’s main journey in the novel. He only learns why the Party does what it does when he is in the clutches of the Thought Police and being tortured in the Ministry of Love.
Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you . . . I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
Winston is speaking to Julia as they first get to know one another. He’s not jealous or concerned about the number of sexual partners Julia’s had, but instead delights in her past experience because each one represents an act of rebellion against the party, and Julia’s rebelliousness is one of the qualities that is most attractive to Winston.
In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.
Winston and Julia are talking about the fact that whatever they do, they will inevitably end up in the hands of the Thought Police. The kind of failure that Winston believes to be better than others is to die while hating the Party, a fate that will be denied to him by the Thought Police in the final moments of the novel.
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you’re more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put it off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
Winston and Julia are talking about whether they should break off their romance to try to stay alive as long as possible. Winston is observing a common aspect of the human condition, that the very concept of being alive means that someday we will die. Winston’s also voicing a notion specific to the world of the novel, that life under the Party is a kind of living death.
I don’t think it’s anything—I mean, I don’t think it was ever put to any use. That’s what I like about it. It’s a little chunk of history that they’ve forgotten to alter. It’s a message from a hundred years ago, if one knew how to read it.
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Winston is explaining his paperweight to Julia. As with many things in the novel, its value to Winston is measured in terms of its ability to serve as a connection to the past. He values the weight not because it is beautiful or even because it is forbidden, but because it stands as an artifact of the history that the Party has tried to erase.
I don’t imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there—small groups of people banding themselves together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generations can carry on where we leave off.
Winston is speaking to Julia and outlining his understanding of where his own small resistances and rebellions fit into the larger story of someday overthrowing the Party. His sentiment reflects the fact that even though Winston knows he will never see the Party fall in his lifetime, he has reason to think his actions have meaning. The same notion is reflected in the writings of Emmanuel Goldstein.
We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it. We want to join it and work for it. We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready.
Here Winston is speaking to O’Brien, when he is invited over to O’Brien’s apartment. Winston and Julia are revealing their opposition to the party, because they believe that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood who works to overthrow the Party. This confession will lead quickly to the arrest and torture of Winston and Julia by the Thought Police.
These are Julia’s first words to Winston, written on a scrap paper and passed to him in the hall. The words represent a total reversal of Julia’s character in both Winston’s mind and the readers’. Until this moment Winston has suspected her to be a member of the Thought Police and has even fantasized about raping and killing her.
I was a troop-leader in the Spies. I do voluntary work three evenings a week for the Junior Anti-Sex League. Hours and hours I’ve spent pasting their bloody rot all over London. I always carry one end of a banner in the processions. I always look cheerful and I never shirk anything. Always yell with the crowd, that’s what I say. It’s the only way to be safe.
Julia is explaining to Winston how she maintains her disguise of Party respectability. This disguise initially led Winston to hate and distrust Julia, but she uses the disguise to survive while breaking the Party’s rules. Julia’s secret identity is a reversal of O’Brien and Mr. Charrington, characters who maintain disguises of sympathy toward those who defy the Party while working as Thought Police.
It was something in your face. I thought I’d take a chance. I’m good at spotting people who don’t belong. As soon as I saw you I knew you were against THEM.
Julia is telling Winston why she gave him the note, and more broadly why she loves him. It’s worth noting that she never speaks of concepts like sexual or romantic attraction. Rather, Julia’s belief that Winston is against the Party makes her want to be with him.
When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour.
Julia is explaining to Winston why the Party is so eager to control the act of sex. Before meeting Julia, Winston believed that the Party simply wanted to deny people pleasure and connection, but Julia, because of her greater experience with sex as an act of resistance, understands the Party’s true motives.
And do you know what I’m going to do next? I’m going to get hold of a real woman’s frock from somewhere and wear it instead of these bloody trousers. I’ll wear silk stockings and high-heeled shoes! In this room I’m going to be a woman, not a Party comrade.
Julia and Winston are in their apartment together, and Julia has just put on makeup and perfume, both of which are forbidden by the Party. Julia is becoming excited by her ability to control her physical appearance and identity within the limited confines of the space that she and Winston believe is safe from observation. Unknown to both of them, they’re being observed by the Thought Police during this time as well.
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I’m quite ready to take risks, but only for something worth while, not for bits of old newspaper.
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In this short line Julia reveals the difference between the kinds of resistance that matter to Winston and to Julia. For Winston, the old bit of newspaper that he once saw proving that the Party lies about history was crucially important. Julia is no less willing to risk death than Winston, but for her the benefits must be practical and immediate, not philosophical or intellectual.
If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal. They can’t do that…They can make you say anything—anything—but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.
Julia and Winston are talking about what might happen to them once the Thought Police have arrested them. Julia believes, and Winston agrees, the Thought Police cannot change who you are inside. In Book Three, both learn that the Thought Police can change who a person is, and that, in fact, changing a person’s inner life is central to how the Thought Police handle criminals.