As pointed out in the previous answer, Julia is in her
mid-twenties, and therefore there is a not inconsiderable age-gap between her and
Winston, who, we are told, is thirty-nine.
Julia's
youthfulness is often emphasized in the novel. She is dark, pretty and attractive and
Winston can hardly understand why she bothers with someone middle-aged and as
unappealing as he feels himself to be. Also, he is an intellectual and she is not; she
prefers to focus on her physical needs and desires. Certainly on the face of it they
appear hardly compatible. Yet they are drawn together in their rebellion against the
Party.
The unlikely pairing of Winston and Julia serves to
highlight how even the most disparate of individuals can be united in a common cause
against the most diabolical type of oppression. The Party seeks to strictly regiment all
of its members, but underneath a façade of outward conformity, Julia and Winston are
highly individualized characters.
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