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1984 Winston Character Analysis

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The main character Winston is known for his fatalistic outlook on his life, but do his mental issues go deeper than that? Winston is a character who is known to be socially awkward, even to the point where he seems like he has social anxiety, but this trait is not constant. There are times when he is around Julia where he exhibits uncharacteristic habits with his body language and words. Almost like he is a totally different person, this leads me to believe that Winston has dissociative identity disorder. Dissociative identity disorder, better known as multiple personality disorder occurs “When an individual displays two or more different personality states or identities that recurrently take control of the person’s behavior.”(Encyclopædia …show more content…

To know whether or not Winston has this disorder one must look at what it really is, dissociative identity disorder is something that is out of the patients control, it is chronic and sporadic. It can be a result of childhood trauma, be it emotional or physical. Most patients with this disorder were unaware that they had it, sometimes the differences in the personalities are not extreme. This is what Winston’s case of MPD is most alike, usually his demeanor changes when he is in situation with Julia. His alternate personality kicks in because it is more confident than his original one, it may have also played into the fact that he and his wife are no longer together. His alternate personality could have been too aggressive for her to handle so she left him (that and the fact that they failed to procreate). For example the phrases “Any Signal”, “What time” and “All right” (Orwell 95) are uttered by Winston, for any normal person these words would be easy to say. But for the socially inept Winston he would usually stutter or, his demeanor during the situation would be totally different (he wouldn’t know how to handle the situation). The reasoning behind his MPD would be that fact that his mother and sister left him as a child. Winston has stated that he was a greedy brat of a child, which caused his mother and sister to leave him, but his current demeanor is totally different from that of his past self. He probably switched back and forth between his different personalities frightening his mother and causing her to leave without dealing with the matter, which all in all made Winston’s mental health issues worse and caused new ones to

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