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more deeply in love with each other and their relationship develops, Winston, in chapter seven
of Part II, begins to have more memories of his mother and his childhood. Why do you think his
relationship with Julia triggers these memories? What is the connection between his mother and
Julia?
Winston also becomes less hate-filled as his relationship with Julia
grows. He realizes, for instance, that for the first time, he does not despise the proles. He
begins to see them as fully human, and he theorizes that they represent an old-fashioned form of
humanity that does not exist in Party members. He think that, for the proles,
What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely
helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself.
. . .The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside.
Do you believe that what Winston surmises about the Proles is true,
or is he simply being sentimental? How can you support your opinion?
Finally,
after Winston and Julia discuss their inevitable torture and death, Winston thinks:
They could lay bare in the utmost detail
everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were
mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
Based
on a reading of the novel, do you believe this is true? Look particularly at the end of the
novel, when Winston is in the Chestnut Cafe. Is there a part of himself that Winston has kept
separate from the Party?
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