Winston and Julia manage to meet at the secret place and he really seems to be in love with her. Winston feels that the secret place is safe and there is not a high risk to be watched by the Party. They even have the courage to make love and they don't regret it afterwards-in fact Winston wants more sex with Julia. The only hindrance is that it is not safe to use the same place too often or too many times. Winston is so seriously in love with Julia that he even wants to live the rest of his life together with her. Unfortunately that is not possible in Oceania where love shouldn't exist or as Winston puts it: "in reality there was no escape".
At last Winston gets the idea to use the room above Mr. Charringtn's shop (the same shop where Winston had bought the paper weight) as their private hiding place where they could make love safely. Winston still trusts that there is no telescreen in the shop and he thinks that the room would be safe place to be with Julia. Julia accepts Winston's idea and the room becomes their hiding place.
Julia insists Winston that she is not Thought Police and that she actually doesn't like the ideas of the Party but if I were Winston, I wouldn't trust her. I think that she has too good connections to the Inner Party because she got real coffee, sugar, tea, milk and a set of makeup. At this point I am not assured that Julia wouldn't be a part of some set-up plan to get Winston caught for thaught crimes.
I still don't understand why I got the feeling that the proles have better life than the Party members. Another thing that I don't understand is that why the Party would drop rocket bombs "just to keep people frightened".
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I don't think that Julia is behind anything, but I could be wrong. Why would the Party set up a plan to catch someone for thought crime when they have sex so many times? If she was behind something the thought police would have already caught them. I just think that she has some sort of inside connections.
I also think that the proles have a better life than the party members because they don't know about what is reality. They only know what they have been told, and they believe it; whereas the party members know what is going on around them for the most part.
I agree with you with the fact that Julia does have some connection with the Inner Party by getting coffee, bread, and jam.
I think that the gov't could be dropping the bombs to keep the past covered up. They want the people to think that they are at war. This is one way to do that.
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