They use it as a form of rebellion. Julia uses this as one of her ways to stay alive. For Winston, he uses it to slowly corrupt the Party and rebel against it, showing his intellectual side (We are the dead…). “In the old days, a man could look at a girl's body and see that she was desirable and that was the end of the story. But nowadays you can't have pure love or pure lust... It was a serious blow to the Party. It was a political act (Orwell 126).” In 1984, if someone thinks another is attractive, while married, it is considered immoral and wrong. Without feelings of love, there can be no betrayal towards your spouse. Katharine, Winston's current wife, is shown throughout the book as the opposite of femininity. She is submissive to her husband and always does what she is told. When Winston and Julia slept together on multiple occasions, they were committing a sex crime. Sex is only for reproduction, and reproduction is only for two people married to each other (We are the dead…). Julia and Winston try several times to join an underground group called The Brotherhood. O'Brien, a colleague of Winston's, gives them a book about the truth about Big Brother's uprising in Oceania. O'Brien helps them understand that there are others who know the truth about Big Brother
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