1. Part II
1984

2. From start to finish… Julia and Winston finally meet
They are discovered by the Thought Police…

3. Significant Quotes
Chapter 1 p.111 – Julia ‘probably had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were ‘roughed in’. It was a common accident in the Fiction Department.’ Writers in Oceania’s totalitarian state were not possible. p. 111 Doublethink – Julia is an enemy AND a creature in pain – Winston asks if he can help you… ‘Are you hurt?’ p. 113 ‘I love you’ p.115 ‘His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Centre. At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.’

4. They can’t look at each other…
p.122/123: Julia tells Winston how to meet her – their hands ‘were clasped together’…. But ‘he did not know what colour the girl’s eyes were… to turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly.’
‘instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.’

5. Colour enters the world
Chapter 2
p. 123: ‘pools of gold’ , ‘the ground was misty was bluebells’, ‘the air seemed to kiss one’s skin.’
p. 125: ‘The sweetness of the air and the greenness of the leaves daunted him. Already on the walk from the station the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin. It occurred to him that till now she had probably never seen him in broad daylight in the open.’
p. 126: ‘and yes! Actually she had turned her face up and he was kissing the wide red mouth…calling him darling, precious one, loved one.
p. 127/128 – We learn about Julia: she’s an enemy of ’them’ too. (the Party)
p. 130 – ‘A thrush had alighted on a bough…and then began to pour forth a torrent of song…
p. 131 – ‘Her body gleamed white in the sun. But for a moment he did not look at her body; his eyes were anchored by the freckled face with its faint, bold smile.’
p. 131 – corruption, sex and hope: ‘Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope.’
p. 132/133 – sex: ‘Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.’

6. Julia – Rebel without a cause?
Chapter 3
p. 133: ‘She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked…’
p. 135 – ‘talking by instalments’. She also talked without moving her lips.
p. 135 – Julia spends a lot of time attending to Party activities like lectures, demonstrations, distributing literature etc. ‘It paid, she said; it was camouflage. If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones.’
p – Julia’s personality comes out, pornosec, Catharine, Party’s line of sexual purity

7. Orwell’s message: Make love not war??
(p. 139) ‘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. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?’
The sex impulse
The family
(p. 140) ‘The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood. The family could not actually be abolished, …and had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police.’
(p. 142) – But Julia is the optimist, while Winston the pessimist.
“’We are the dead,’ he said.
‘We’re not dead yet,’ said Julia prosaically.’”

8. Chapter 4
p. 144 – the woman with the red forearms singing a song: ‘The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.’
p. 146 – thinking of wanting Julia and renting the room above the junk shop: ‘It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves.’ … the Ministry of Love.
p. 148 – the ‘red-armed woman’ still singing and pegging out clothes… singing alone was not done by Party members. ‘It would even have seemed slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself.’ … goes on to say people who are starving sing.
p – makeup, perfume, rats, lemons and oranges, 12 hour clocks…
Winston tells Julia about his fear of rats…. Foreshadowing?

9. The Paperweight and History and Winston
“She brought the glass paperweight over to the bed to have a look at it in a better light. He took it out of her hand, fascinated, as always, by the soft, rainwatery appearance of the glass.
‘What is it, do you think?’ said Julia.
‘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.’ (p. 152)
“Winston did not get up for a few minutes more. The room was darkening. He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself. There was such a depth of it, and yet it was almost as transparent as air. It was as though the surface of the glass had been the arch of the sky, enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete. He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table, and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself. The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.” (p. 153/154)

10. Chapter 5 Syme has been vaporized
Hate Week preparations – Eurasian soldier posters and Goldstein effigy (p )
(p. 157) -
‘Four, five, six -- seven times they met during the month of June. Winston had dropped his habit of drinking gin at all hours. He seemed to have lost the need for it. He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped. The process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice. Now that they had a secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time. What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk. Mr Charrington, thought Winston, was another extinct animal.’
Winston’s health is improving and he’s less prone to bouts of rage and hate.

11. p. 158/163
Winston and Julia discuss the Rebellion, how to combat Big Brother
Julia doesn’t care
The past surviving in a ‘lump of glass’ (p. 162)

12. Chapter 6-10 Winston meets O’Brien
Winston’s dream about his mother. He discusses the proles with Julia
P. 172 – Winston’s realization about what matters…
Winston and Julia in the Inner Party headquarters.
O’Brien arranges for Winston to get a copy of Goldstein’s book.
Hate Week – a ‘great orgasm… quivering to its climax’ (187)
Winston reads the book
Winston and Julia are arrested by the Thought Police
The glass paperweight is smashed – it was small..