# Julia · rebellion through the body

a character of 1984 — a member of the NOUTHESIA universe of warnings. emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Julia:1984:68a1d1⟧

**who —** Julia, a young woman of the Anti-Sex League who secretly loves pleasure and despises the Party.
**what —** Winston's lover and his opposite kind of rebel: she fights the Party not with ideas but with appetite and private joy.
**where —** In the rented room, the countryside, and finally apart from Winston, each having betrayed the other.
**why —** Because resistance is not only the mind's; Julia rebels through the body the Party tries to ration and shame.
**how —** By cunning, sex, and a practical refusal to let the Party own her private wants — though she, too, is broken.

**the seal —** I rebelled with my body, not my mind — and in the end they made us betray each other, which was the only victory they wanted.

> a catalogued personification of 1984 under the DLW standard — literary commentary and cataloguing, not an
> original creation. © the Orwell Estate.

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