Julia (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Julia is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Her last name is not revealed in the novel, but she is called Dixon in the 1954 BBC TV production and Worthing in the Sandra Newman novel.

The character is believed to be based on the author’s second wife Sonia Orwell.

Julia is believed to be in her mid-20s in the year 1984, suggesting she was likely born around the late 1950s. She lives in Airstrip One, a province of the fictional superstate Oceania. Her knowledge of events before the revolution is inaccurate as her grandfather, the only close source to her with that knowledge, disappeared when she was eight, though she remembers the poem he used to sing, "You owe me three farthings say the bells of St. Martin's / When will you pay me, say the bells of Old Bailey?". Julia become used to daily obligations and lives of the Oceania, forming herself into an especially zealous propagandist for the Junior Anti-Sex League, the Two Minutes Hate and Community Centre. Though, she secretly despises the Party she does not have show does show any interest in the revolution or thought-crimes. However, she along with Winston joins a alleged secret society named "Brotherhood" that retaliate against the Party.