Compare and contrast the ways that Winston and Julia respond to the Party’s oppressive policies in 1984.

Winston spends a great deal of time mulling over his thoughts and beliefs before he takes action. Indeed, were it not for Julia, readers would not know if he ever would have taken action against the Party. Julia, on the other hand, is not political and cares more about her own pleasure than the Party, but she’s proactive. It is Julia who, in Chapter 1 of Book 2, invites Winston to the meadow, where he sees the bluebells, hears the birdsong, and makes love to Julia—a punishable act because it involves an individual choice and ownlife and is an expression of love for someone other than Big Brother. As Book 2 continues, it is obvious that Julia’s approach to the Party’s restrictive rules is simply to surreptitiously break them, to do what she likes out of sight of the Party’s surveillance—something she is very good at doing. Winston, on the other hand, wants to find a way to actively overthrow the Party, even though he believes that such a revolution can only come from the proles, not through Outer Party members like him. Both Winston and Julia secretly break out of the Party’s oppressive policies. However, Julia does it to ignore the Party’s rules, while Winston does it as an act of civil disobedience.