Part 2: Chapter 2

1) When Julia asks Winston what he thought of her before that day, how does he respond?
 
He tells her the whole truth without hesitation, he tells her that he originally hated her and wanted to rape and murder her, because he thought she was a Thought Police.

2) What does Julia rip off her body?

Her Junior Anti-Sex League sash

3) Where did Julia get the chocolate?

Julia got the chocolate from the black market

4) At the top of page 130 a thrush appears. Orwell describes the thrush in detail. What do you think the thrush symbolizes? (there are multiple answers)

I believe the thrush represents freedom, natural instinct, and enjoyment. The symbol of a bird in general will lead most to believe it is freedom because it can fly anywhere it wants, and see anything it wants to see. But it also sings, apparently without reason, but just out of spite. It sings for enjoyment, not because anyone told it too.
 
5) What does Julia say when Winston asks, “have you done this before?”

She says that she has done it many times.

6) Why is Winston so happy about her response?

He feels that the more men she has been with, the more corrupt she is, and he loves that she defies the Party that way. Also, she mentions being with only Party members, which gives Winston the hope that all the Party has some amount of bad in them.

7) In the context of the story, explain why Winston says” “I have purity, I have goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

He is so sick of the people around him being afraid to do anything that may get them in trouble, and he just wants everyone to have emotions, and hate toward the Party and to stand up for themselves, he wants everyone to show some kind of human emotion. He wants the Party's sterile kingdom to be overthrown by people who are finally facing fear and being corrupt.

8) Write a short (5-6 sentences) response explaining the last 3 sentences of this chapter.

 By Winston saying 'it was a political act', he is meaning that by the simple act him and Julia participated in, it was a protest, a small victory against the Party. They were being human, letting their natural instinct bring them together, to do a natural thing. Sex for pleasure was such a big crime to the Party, especially being intimate with the partner, that by doing it Winston and Julia have broken an unspoken rule, but it was worth it. Winston looks at intercourse as a battle, facing the fear of the Party, and being defiant. He feels that there is no such thing as pure love or lust, but instead a fight for human intuition.


9) Choose one or two lines that attracted your attention.  Discuss why.

When Julia says, " I adore it," it is a simple statement with so much power behind it. By simply saying this, it is similar to saying that she loves to go against the Party, and participate in an act so looked down upon. 

"Not merely the love of one person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces," I felt was a very powerful line, saying how much it would impact everyone if people stuck to the natural instinct they had, and how it could destroy the Party's reign.