Julia's view on the Party and party life is very different from Winston's. Winston believes that it is possible to overthrow the Party and be free. He thinks that the Proles are the key and that if they can be persuaded to act together they have the power to overcome the Party. He accepts that he will die by the Party's hands and does nothing to stop it simply delay it. Julia's philosophy is that you simply have to live under the Party following the little laws so you can break the big ones. Her outlook is much simpler and in the book Orwell writes,"The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same."Julia doesn't rebel against the Party in the way Winston does her way is much more subtle.
In a way they are both rebelling against the Party in large ways. They simply do it very different ways. Winston wants a full overthrow in which Party doctrine is abolished completely and you can be free. In the book Winston thinks,"Anything to rot, to weaken, to undermine!" Julia does it a much more subtle way by buying black market items and having an affair with Winston
Do you perceive Winston or Julia to be the more "rebellious"? Who do you think the Party would perceive as the more threatening to their control?
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