. He cannot have her and be free forever, he can have her temporarily but eventually this love or passion that he feels for her will be burnt out and diminished. While Winston’s discontentment with the party starts with a journal, the physical act of his rebellion begins with Julia. Orwell writes, “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” (Orwell 277). An idea is always a dangerous thing to contend with -especially in the world that Smith lives in, but more dangerous than the idea is the execution of that idea. Smith’s rebellion had its roots with his discontentment with the Party, but it wasn’t until that first day with Julia did…show more content… She symbolises the thing that he cannot have but the thing that he also yearns for at the same time. Naomi Jacobs in her essay, Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four says, “The materiality of the body comes to the fore- both as an obstacle to success in its stubborn disorderliness, and as the territory upon which any new order must ultimately be mapped.” For Smith, his body betrays the very thing that makes him human and in a very male sense, a man. He has this urge to be with her but at the same time this society supresses those feelings and now has to train his body not to feel those things and instead turns to violence. Orwell is showing the readers that this type of repression from society begets violence. And it shows that even in spite of the restrictions placed on Winston, he cannot control himself when it comes to what his body is telling him. He believes that Julia is the ultimate symbol of rebellion and it’s the fact that it’s forbidden and alluring at the same time that causes him to act
