I could tolerate a rewrite of “1984” from Julia’s perspective, Shakespeare isn’t suffering because “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” was written. However, I draw the line at imputing major motivations that are not in the original. There is NO evidence in “1984” that Julia was a plant like O’Brien. If that were the case, there would be no reason to have Winston drawn to O’Brien independently of Julia. There would be next to no need for O’Brien at all, except to completely deconstruct Winston’s mind, which is something Julia would not do. Also, they see each other again after Winston’s reintroduction to society. That would have been the time to suggest that she was in league with the Inner Party from the beginning. But the scene only suggests that they both betrayed each other, and both knew it, and what they . . . THEY, had was destroyed. To admit the story line of “Julia” is to destroy Orwell’s intention in “1984”, and that does not fly.
In real life Soviet Union, they did have such occurrences where more than one person were plants. Maybe in Cointelpro also.
Very well put!