1984 Winston Struggles

Other than Winston’s weak characteristic and his lack of planning, the main cause that contributes to Winston’s downfall is his indulgence. Winston lacks the ability to control himself from anything addictive in life. This personal flaw makes Winston lost in his cause to the destruction of “Big Brother”. In the novel, Winston constantly drinks and smokes to distract himself instead of focusing on a plan to take down “Big Brother”. Winston’s dream is to have a love affair: “Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated” (Book 2, Chapter 1). His illegal love affair with Julia does no good to his objective of bringing down “Big Brother”. The only result that the love affair accomplishes is Winston’s

Winston sees Big Brother two different ways in the novel; for almost the entire novel he hates everything that Big Brother is. Then in the end, his view of Big Brother in changed completely, and then matches everyone else’s view of Big Brother. In this way the reader is able to see how there are similarities between the two sides of God and of Big Brother.

many unnecessary risks such as trusting O'Brien, renting the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop and

Conflicts that occurred with Winston were conflicts with himself and conflicts with the party. External conflicts happen at the earliest reference point of the book. For Instance, Winston starts being doubtful about the party. He writes a diary expressing how he feels about the party. This is the first time the reader sees the external conflicts going on with Winston. He accepts the fact that he has committed thought crime, but worries about getting caught. Additionally, Winston contemplates for a while whether he should write in the diary or not. "For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage"(Orwell 9). His misery in the beginning of the book was brought

This conflict has caused Winston to become vulnerable to the manipulative actions of Big Brother. However, Winston said enough was enough. This conflict is resolved by Winston rebelling against the party through thought crime.

Winston’s childhood years were harsh because he didn't have affection from either of his parents and being sent away at such a young age for school. But because of the time period he grew up in that was the way families were, especially if they were wealthy. Winston was a troublesome child while he was away at school but that was because he was sent to a school that he didn't like. As he got older and went to schools that suited him, like the military school Sandhurst, he grew out of that phase of rebellion. But the examinations that he was required to take and pass to get into Sandhurst, was another hard time because he failed them twice. Instead, of deciding to give up he just looked for other routes to pass his examinations, for example,

There are always two sides to every story and that’s either the truth or the false of a story, you can’t always predict that the Government is saying the truth because now the Government can tell a story that is completely the opposite from the actual story. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell , the character Winston is part of the outer party and he works for Big Brother he is in charge to remove every information that is incorrect or the info that Big Brother doesn’t want the proles to see. Winston then creates Comrade Ogilvy and considered him to be an admiring person. Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch both serve in the military and where in an major accident that the Government considered them a hero for what they did.

In the first part of the book, Winston describes how the government tries to control the lives of the people through telescreens, the thought police, and countless amounts of propaganda. Winston describes

Winston’s main characteristics apart from his thoughtful nature are his rebelliousness and his pessimism. He intensely dislikes the Party and desires to test the limits of he Party’s power. Winston tests the Party

In small clumsy letters he wrote..”(1.1.10) This shows that even though writing on paper is an illegal act Winston felt enough hate towards Big Brother that he was willing to risk his life. Winston was rebellious, but is easily relatable because he believes the in standards; free will, which is what the United States stands for. (132) The antagonist is essentially the government or Big Brother as called in the book but the

Sometimes the conflict is not resolved in dystopian books. Was it resolved in yours? If not, how would you like the book to end?- Orwell did not resolve the conflict by any means. In the end, the Party had completely broken Winston of his spirit and he now conformed like the rest of the society. If I was given the opportunity to write my own ending, I would have written anything but that. Julia and Winston would engage in a relationship and escape the realms of the Party’s totalitarian control.

How does the author characterize the setting and Winston? What aspect of his work does Winston enjoy? What does this tell you about his character? What is ironic about Winston’s love of his work? P 43

Winston believes throughout the whole book that his mind and the power of his mind is more capable of not obeying the party as his fellow people of Oceania. What Winston never seems to find other than one other person out of all the other people he has meet, is that no one else has his passion of hate for the party. Later in the novel when he is being tortured, O’Brien states “You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one” (Orwell 249). O’brien is forcing the idea in winton’s mind that he is wrong and that winston is alone in this fight. Although some may not show their hatred like Winston does and some are incapable of having that hatred, it does not seem possible that

Ranald’s views on Winston’s character are inaccurate and weak because it portrays Winston as an “antihero” (Ranald 250), “passive and not self-aware” (Ranald 253), when actually his character represents

The novel’s protagonist. A 39 year old Outer Party member, he’s described as a thin, frail, commoner. He does as he’s told and is good at his job. Obsessed with the past, Winston often tries to recall what things were like before the Revolution. Because of this, he’s interested in Party Philosophy and comes to hate everything that Big Brother stands for. Winston is observant and thoughtful, and spends many evenings passively rebelling against the Party by illegally keeping a journal, not participating in community activities, and visiting the proles district. In short, Winston is a thoughtcriminal. In further rebellion, he begins a relationship with Julia, a young woman who works in the Fiction department. Together, Winston and Julia begin a secret love affair, causing Winston to become very aware of their morality. He becomes rightfully paranoid, knowing that they