the Thought Police." At this point, Julia and Winston are split up and taken their separate ways. Their love affair, along with whatever fantasies Winston had of resisting the Party, is over.

In the novel "1984" by George Orwell, the main characters are Winston and Julia.  They become lovers in spite of the rules and the government control.  They meet in different locations but their favorite spot is a room that George rented above Charrington's shop.  The mattress is full of bugs and the room has rats but the two lovers feel safe there and pretend that they are free of the Government's control.  One evening after making love they have fallen asleep and when they awake they begin to talk.  The picture on the wall has mocking sounds coming from it and they discover that there is a "tele-screen" behind the picture of St. Clement’s Lane.  Police break in to the apartment and arrest Winston and Julia.  As they are taken out Winston realizes that he has been betrayed by Charrington.

"Soldiers intrude and one smashes the paperweight. Someone kicks Winston as he sees Julia double over in pain when she is punched. Flinging her over his shoulder, a soldier takes her from the room."

Winston and Julia are betrayed by O'Brien, Mr. Charrington, and the thought-police. They are betrayed because they all allow Winston and Julia to rent a room in Charrington's shop where they carry out the physical aspects of their clandestine affair and they implicate themselves inextricably. When the iron voice behind the picture orders them to "remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered" (230) they realize they have been betrayed. Betrayal also occurs later in the novel when Winston is interrogated in Room 101. He betrays Julia and tries to blame everything on her.

Winston and Julia betray themselves in multiple ways. For example, unbeknownst to him, the Thought Police read Winston's journal. Government cameras and microphones also record Julia and Winston making love amid the bluebells in what Winston calls the Golden Country. Winston and Julia are recorded as well at O'Brien's agreeing to help to overthrow the regime. But if you are talking about the scene of their arrest, it is in the room above Mr. Charrington's shop.

This is ironic because it is the place Winston had most associated with safety from government surveillance. It never occurred to him that Mr. Charrington could be with the Thought Police. Winston thought he had found a haven. In fact, he likened the room to the coral paperweight that he had bought from Mr. Charrington. Winston liked to imagine the room as encased in thick, wavy glass similar to the glass protecting the delicate piece of coral. But ironically, the room is just as fragile as the paperweight the Thought Police shatter.

Another irony is that Julia had been talking about taking down and cleaning the picture that hid the video camera filming them, but never did, so they never knew it was there. They thought they were experiencing privacy, but all the time they were being watched.

They also missed the danger in the clock being set to the wrong time. Winston sees it, but ignores it. If he had been alert to danger, that strange fact might have caused Julia and him to flee. But, ironically, he is too sure they are safe there.

Winston and Julia are betrayed by Mr. Charrington, the apparently kindly old man who operates a shop. They had rented a room from him in the part of town where the proles live. They believe that they will be safe from the prying eyes of Big Brother there, and indeed they meet many times in the room. One day, as they awakened in the room, they are shocked as they hear a voice from another room, indicating that they are under arrest. It turns out that there is a telescreen behind a picture on the wall, and that Mr. Charrington is actually much younger than he appeared. One of the great ironies of this passage in the book is that Winston, having thought so much about the Thought Police, realizes only when he sees Mr. Charrington out of disguise that he is knowingly looking at a member of this dreaded secret group. Another irony is that Winston has come to believe that the only hope for the future of freedom lies with the proles. Yet with his betrayal and arrest it becomes clear that even they can't be trusted. Their sanctuary, the one place they believed they were safe and beyond the gaze of the Party, was actually under surveillance the entire time.

When Julia and Winston are captured, they are talking in the rented room over a junk shop. After they began their affair, Winston rented the room from the shop’s proprietor, whom he knows as Mr. Charrington.

On this particular day, they were reading Goldstein’s book until Winston fell asleep, and he has recently woken up. When a strange voice is heard and a picture of St. Clement’s Dane falls off the wall, exposing a telescreen behind it, Winston realizes that they have been under surveillance—probably the whole time they have been meeting in the room. They were completely deluded in considering this space to be private and secure. Furthermore, when Mr. Charrington enters the room with several men in black uniforms, Winston sees that his appearance and voice have been greatly transformed. He realizes that the apparently benign proprietor has not only been a participant in the ongoing deception, but is a member—and probably an officer—of the Thought Police.