The Dark Haired Girl

The Dark-Haired girl represents an object of both attraction and hatred in Winston in the book 1984. Although the girl is young and beautiful she is an avid member of the "Junior Anti-Sex League" and also a follower of Big Brother. Winston first thinks when seeing her "I've disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry around with her."(Page 10) When thinking this he sees her as something formulated by Big Brother for the use of Big Brother and therefore not something he can ever have a chance at communicating with. Although an object of hatred she is also an object of attraction for Winston. On page 31 he dreams "The girl with dark hair was coming towards him across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside." This seems to represent the idea that the dark haired girl represents something that he desperately wants yet in reality can never have under the authoritarian rule of Big Brother.