At the moment when the ability to truly love, both himself and other humans, is tortured out of Winston, he loses his humanity. Our human experience is held in how we express our thoughts and actions. “It is not easy to become sane” Winston is told when he is in the ominous Room 101 (Orwell 326). Sanity is the ability to act in a normal and rational manner. In Winston’s society, what is considered normal is unnatural to man and Winston must fight his natural tendencies to define himself as sane in this society. Fighting natural tendencies is not an easy battle. Winston, now with the strength of affirmation in his beliefs fights to express himself in thoughts against the government. These actions are simply dismissed by those in charge as though he is insane. Winston is in a position where right as he begins to gain confidence and assurance …show more content…
His unique position in the career field allows him the exact proof that that collective brain is indeed wrong. Winston experiences firsthand the limiting of one’s language and observes how the society is attempting to even further restrict it. Through his character of Winston Orwell displays his belief that he “ hated totalitarianism, but, distinctively, he believed that the ultimate totalitarianism was a totalitarianism of language and thought, of ideas in the mind” (Roelofs). Limiting one’s language limits the experience the the words alone express. The society Orwell depicts in his 1984 illustrates his personal “concern being not only with Party but with the old civic morality and its expression in government” (Mezciems). Orwell creates his point defending the importance of individuality and not allowing the government to strip that away. The human experience is unique and different from individual to individual Each and everyone has a slightly different reality as “reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else”; what one experiences varies greatly from what experiences the person next them undergoes