This quote shows that Winston has always felt guilty of his mother’s death as if he had been the reason she was killed. In other instances in the book it is almost like she is haunting his conscience, constantly appearing in his dreams, “Winston was dreaming of his mother” (page 31). This might be another reason why he was so determined to oppose, an obsession with wanting to avenge his mother. Winston fought hard against the government because he desperately craves to feel real emotion, he wants to experience love, to live knowing he accomplished something, despite knowing deep down the party would not allow accomplishments to survive, as they could erase him from history in the blink of an eye. “‘Does he [Big Brother] exist in the same way I exist?’ / ‘You do not exist,’ said O’Brien” (page 272).
In this section, Winston’s entire out look and thought process changes extremely quickly and determinedly. Once he starts to interact with this girl who he seems to keep bumping into to, the whole course of Winston’s outwardly obedient but internally disobedient behavior becomes much more actively counter regime than it ever had before. This drastic change begins even in his first interaction with the mysterious girl who falls in front of him in the hallway at their office, “A curious emotion stirred in Winston’s heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward to help her” (107-108).
Winston wants to learn and understand why the party exercises total control over Oceania, like they do. Winston doesn’t like how the party does what it wants too just to keep people under there control. For example, the Party changes history to how they want people to know it, not to what actually happened. He rebels against the Party by committing several crimes
Winston Smith, the main character in the novel, faced many emotional challenges throughout the book. The problems that he encountered were primarily a result of his strong opposition toward the government of Oceania, which was more commonly known as “the Party”. The Party controlled every aspect of people’s lives, to the point where one wrong thought or physical action could cause brutal punishment. Although Winston was a minor member of the Party, he still secretly despised the way it had inflicted a totalitarian society upon him and the rest of the nation. All citizens were brainwashed to live in complete orthodoxy, and any act, no matter how trivial, that was displeasing to the Party was looked upon as a serious crime.
He hated the telescreens, the Police, Big Brother, everything about The Party. Winston wants to stay human, to stay human. He wants to think whatever he wants and not be punished for it. He wants to be able to remember the memories of his mother, father, and sister. Even when he was actively
Likewise to Winston’s failure to show heroicness once he got wrapped in misfortune, Winston is similarly an anti-hero when he lacks integrity and though Winston has heroic qualities, he fails to stick to his viewpoints towards the Party throughout the entire novel. The Party has a way of putting ideas into the minds of their citizens that are false, but sometimes they are still obey because what the
Qualities of Winston’s Character in 1984 “Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens but even the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve”. In 1984, the country of Oceania is bleak, depressing, and colourless, and it is reflected in the protagonist Winston Smith. Winston is pessimistic and has a depressing air surrounding him, yet he is still thoughtful. To showcase this, the text uses parallel structure very effectively to illustrate these characteristics, and overall, it creates an interesting effect on the reader. Even though the world in 1984 is depressing, much like Winston himself, he still has the capability to be thoughtful.
Winston’s realization of the Party’s morally wrong actions gets him to start rebelling against him. The first instance of a rebellion is when he purchases a diary from a store, which is prohibited. He secretly writes down any anti-Party suspicions, knowing that he is going to get captured for it. In the first act of 1984, Winston continues to write in his diary.
An example of him being not rebellious is that his biggest act of rebellion was Julia. Winston definitely was bound to fail from the beginning because he was careless and not very rebellious. Winston was bound to fail because he had blind faith in O’Brien. By that it is meant that Winston trust O’Brien off without actually knowing him. Winston just accepts that O’Brien is anti-party because he gave him a look during the two minute hate.
Winston’s motivation for his rebellion strengthens throughout the story until he is caught and it is tested. At the start of book one, Winston realizes that he wants to rebel, but is too scared of the government to start physically rebelling yet. In book one Orwell writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page” (16) and then “He could not help feeling a twinge of panic… for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether.” which shows that he wants to rebel, but is too scared to commit to actually rebelling (16). At this point in the story he is debating whether or not to rebel and is not taking big risks.
A hero is not someone in colourful tights or a long flowing cape. A hero is someone who is brave, courageous and devoted to a goal. George Orwell, the author of 1984, defines a hero as an ordinary person doing whatever they can to influence social systems which do not respect human decency, even when knowing that they cannot possibly succeed. Orwell constructs Winston Smith as a protagonist who does not possess the traditional characteristics of a hero. But nevertheless displays courage by rebelling against the Party, and standing by his decision even when he is captured.
The novel describes the journey of Winston Smith as he rebels against the Party and tries to maintain his human qualities. By creating a totalitarian government in the novel 1984, George Orwell is able to express how important humanity is to not only Winston but also
This is one of his first acts of rebellion against the party, by not believing in them and doubting what it’s told to him. Winston also struggles with the new war. The party announced they are at war with Eastasia and not Eurasia, and they made sure the records say that the party was always at war with Eastasia and they are allies with Eurasia. “Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia… The work was overwhelming, all the more so because the processes that it involved could not be called by their true names.
His inability to follow his own rational combined with his passion for rebellion and for Julia led him down the path of no return. After taking a look at the whole book Winston had set himself up for demise from the very
In 1984, Winston Smith, the protagonist, attempts to rebel
