Résumé par chapitre de 1984

1. Summary

Part II

Chapter 1 :

Winston was walking through the ministry corridors when he met the girl from the fiction department. Her hand was broken and felt down. When he helped her up, she slipped a paper note to him, on which was written “I love you”. He felt restless, at first thinking it was either a message from the thought police, or else a message from an organization called the brotherhood. He finally saw the message, but it made him more anxious thinking about how to talk to her fearing that she had vanished or changed her mind. He planned his time and finally got the chance to talk to her at the canteen. They met at the square of Victory, near the monument during a parade of Mongolian war prisoners.

Chapter 2:

They met at the Square of Victory and arranged a meeting at a rural place where they made love. They heard the songs of a bird singing and Winston felt a moment of extreme beauty, euphoria. They shared a piece of chocolate that came from the black market. Julia tells him that she had done this lots of times with inner Party members too (in fact, they aren’t as pure and transparent as they seem to be). He extremely liked how Julia manifested her rebellion towards the party: through vices (sex, swears, etc.) she had no virtue. Winston hated the party and its doctrine so much and transferred his love to anyone that rebels against it.

Chapter 3 :

This chapter tells the progressive meetings of Julia and Winston. They would meet a few times in the evening in crowded streets and it was very rare that they would find an occasion to make love at peace. Julia always plans the trip out and oftentimes their plans are interrupted (by the presence of the police patrol or just the approach of telescreens) – talking by instalment. Julia worked at the pornosec, due to her good reputation and motivates Winston to zeal to camouflage their rule breaking. Julia discovered the ulterior motive to chastity: enforce the supressed instinct as a driver of energy for hatred and fear. The party needs to keep ppl dissatisfied and energetic to enforce its doctrine. In fact, they turn the instinct for their own purpose. They found a place at the top of an old church and Winston tells Julia about his wife. He had an occasion to push her off the cliff, but he did not. At the end, although rebel Julia as never questioned or thought about changing the rules as she never lived before the revolution, while Winston remembers the past and deeply questions society instead of rebelling superficially by breaking the rules.

Chapter 4:

The hate week and different tasks makes their meetings more and more challenging and sometimes they cannot make love for a long time. Winston’s desire for sex has augmented. It was previously simply out of will but now, it is more driven by desire. Through time, he has also developed affection for Julia and the couple wanted privacy a place of their own even if it means that they are quite close to their grave. They rented the apartment from M. Charrington who consented easily. Julia brought black market and inner party food and wore makeup Although it was poor filled with animals and bugs it felt like their own world (metaphor of the paperweight at the end—foreshadowing?). Winston many times observes the proles life—children playing, singing – it seemed like peaceful happiness.

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