In the novel "1984" we read that the lottery, with its weekly pay-outs of prizes, was the one thing that the proles attached any hope towards. Winston realizes this early on after walking down a street with men yelling for the results of the lottery numbers he expresses this where he states, "There were some millions of proles for whom the lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive." Although we know that Big Brother has fixed the lottery so that nobody is able to win but allow the proles to continue to play it to not only give them a hobby to keep them occupied but something to hope for and believe that they had a chance to win.
Winston hoped for many things one of them being that he was not alone in hating the party. A young attractive girl named Julia, lets Winston know he is not alone in hating the party by asking him to have sex with her. Although Julia is not Winston's perfect choose she is against the party because unlike Winston she defies the......
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