The book 1984 is a story about one man's opinion of what the future will hold. Nothing is as it is now. The most obvious and pertinent difference is the government and its philosophies. It trains its citizens to be robots, not to think, not to question. The people have no opinions or allegiances save to the Party. If people are not allowed to have a mind then they cannot love anything. If they do not love anything then they cannot be passionate about anything. If a person has no passion how can they have a will to live?
             Winston does not follow the mold. He is a thinker. This means he forms his own opinions on what is right and wrong he does not allow the Party to do so for him. Despite his private mental rebellion Winston still follows the rules of the Party because it is what he needs to do to survive. It is an ironic situation. Winston hates his life, he hates everything about it. He hates his home, his wife, his neighbors, his coworkers and himself for not being able to blindly follow the Party. He could easily voice his opinion or fail to follow the Party guidelines, quickly bringing about an end to the life his loathes. Winston however cannot bring himself to do this, his will to live is too strong. Instead he contents himself with winning small victories over the Party. He buys a diary and writes in it, he refuses to use the language of the Party except in official documents for work, he tries to restrain himself from becoming a raging barbarian at the two-minute hate gatherings. The reason Winston does not do anything to endanger himself more than he deems necessary is that he realizes his disappearance and subsequent death would have no effect on anything. It is in this way that Winston differs from Julia.
             Julia is an exemplary Party member. Julia was leader of her group of Spies as a child, she volunteers at the Junior ant-sex league, and she spends almost all her time at the community recreation center. Despite her ag...