No big spoilers please as only 2/3 finished.
I’m finally reading 1984, and it’s hard to tell if I like it or not. I love the parts that focus on the government and how things work in the dystopia, but the sections mainly focusing on Winston and Julia just irritate me.
They are both such annoying people, and I straight up dislike Winston.
Every time he speaks or recalls a moment from his past, it just makes me see him in a worse light.
Like how his first instinct when seeing Julia was that he wanted to beat and rape her. And then he said how he stole food from his dying sister and mother.
Obviously I know that living in a world like that would mess you up, but it’s still hard to see past in my opinion.
It’s hard to see him as an every man, as I don’t want to associate with would be rapists.
Am I missing something? Obviously people like the book so I would like to see other opinions
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