Who Is Winston In 1984

Winston Smith is probably the most important and complex character in George Orwell’s masterpiece, namely Nineteen Eighty-Four. Throughout this essay I will try to explain the different aspects of Winston’s role in the novel from the question of the narrative perspective through his rebellious tendencies to his psychological problems.

Characters and conflict are both heavily reliant on each other and both are needed for a functioning story. In the book 1984, Winston Smith, the main character, and Big Brother both play major roles in the stories conflict. Winston Smith is a minor member of the Ministry of Truth which along with two other Ministries rules over London. Winston is an intelligent and thoughtful, but weak and frail 39-year-old man. In Order to freely express himself Winston has a diary and goes to the slums of the city where he will not be monitored by the parties of big brother. Winston believes that he has a revolutionary dream that could change his and many others lives but is being oppressed by the parties totalitarian control over his life. Throughout the

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Imagine being controlled completely by the government; cameras in every household, microphones recording every word spoken and propaganda saying “Big Brother is watching you!” all around. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, that is the reality. Thirty-nine year old Winston Smith, low-ranking member of the Party in London, Is embittered by the Totalitarian government and its brutality to the people. The Party controls everything in Oceania; languages, history, sex, free thought and even individuality, by the Thought Police. Winston writes in a diary how much he hates the government, which ultimately would get him killed by the Thought Police if he was caught. Winston believes there is a secret brotherhood which works to overthrow Big Brother and the Party, and has a suspicion that a powerful party member named O’Brien is part of this group.

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.

Winston is gazing out the small window with “his glasses”. The blackness of space meeting the gray landscape. He hears a door open and panics, quickly hiding “his” glasses. A man with a lab coat enters and says, “Winston, I think you have something that belongs from me. Hand it over.” Winston hesitated, being afraid of the repercussions. “I’m not mad bud. Hey wanna trade?”, showing a jar of Winston’s favorite, peanut butter. Winston gladly trades “his” glasses for his favorite. On the right of his lab coat, you can see the man’s name tag, Jack Morrison. Winston’s interest in the opening the lid soon gravitated back what lies beyond the window. Jack snaps Winston out of his gaze, “There isn’t much out there kiddo. Listen, I think

The protagonist in Orwell’s 1984 is Winston Smith. In the novel the reader experiences the dangers of a totalitarian world through the eyes of Winston Smith. He, unlike the other citizens of Oceania, is aware of the illusions that the Party, Big Brother, and the Thought Police institute. Winston’s personality is extremely pensive and curious; he is desperate to understand the reasons why the Party exercises absolute power in Oceania. Winston tests the limits of the Party’s power through his secret journal, committing an illegal affair, and being indicted into an Anti-Party Brotherhood. He does all his in hopes to achieve freedom and independence, yet in the end it only leads to physical and psychological torture, transforming him into a loyal subject of Big Brother.

He starts accusing the girls of being witches. After being pressured to confess, the girls began to blame others for their actions. They start naming people who are witches to save their own skin. The witch trials cause hysteria throughout the town. John Proctor confess that he is a witch but doesn’t name anyone else because he doesn’t want to spread lies.

In the society of Oceania where privacy is non existent, where thought police is ready to catch anyone acting unloyal to the Party and where the citizens are indoctrinated to conformity and perpetual love towards Big Brother, there may feel like there is no hope for change. Apart from many other of his comrades, Winston disagrees with the Party and all of its values (INGSOC, doublethink etc.). Winston believes that there still is hope for change but in the meantime, for the means of his own sanity and survival, Winston chooses to live rebelliously against the Party and he makes this evident in his behavior. One example of this is Winston's’ purchase and use of a diary, “His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large

The language of this passage, illustrates Winston’s frantic thoughts and worries, by having long, and sometimes grotesque sentences, describing life, death, and suicide, the current topics circulating Winston’s mind. Prior to this passage, Winston’s had just had an encounter with the dark-haired girl, where he believing her to be a spy who was following him, contemplated killing her, but found himself unable to. In this passage he’s very overwhelmed by this past event and his thoughts are portrayed in long, sentences, that show the current hopelessness he feels. He thinks to himself; “On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues you are fighting are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life

In the beginning of 1984 Winston sets the scene by giving information about his surroundings. When he goes to help Mrs. Parsons, light is given to the junior spy league, which both of her kids are in. Later he is called to work at the ministry of truth, where he “fixes” and destroys documents in a fashion they know one realizes that it doesn’t exist. At the hate, he meets eyes with O’Brien and knows he wants to rebel too. He also sees Julia who will later become his love interest. Winston wanders to the area of the proles in search of the shop he bought his forbidden notebook from. It was left in its original condition unlike almost every other building. He soon rents it for him and Julia because of its lack of a speakwrite, a recording

shows that children learn to think a certain way, as they are educated. For instance, Parsons, a man who strongly supports Big Brother, is turned into the Thought Police when his own daughter convicts him of saying “Down with Big Brother” in his sleep (Orwell 233). This demonstrates that the education children receive manipulates their minds into thinking the way the government wants. Parsons’ daughter learned to turn in people who did not support Big Brother even if it was a family member. The Party also uses the Ministry of Truth to manipulate its population with skewed history. Winston’s job is to change records of history so people only know the history that the government wants them to know. Through these lies, the government is able to control people’s thoughts and how they think. Orwell shows that people have lost their thoughts without even noticing since they have been taught to always think like so. He uses this to demonstrate that “if man [does] not become aware of the assaults on his personal freedom,” he will lose his right of thought (Bossche). Therefore, Orwell establishes that the government can be too powerful when they manipulate people without anyone noticing.

Winston Smith- He is intelligent, thirty nine years old, lives in London, and works at The Ministry of Truth. He sees the lies the Party tells every day and because of this, he loathes the government. He hates being controlled by the Party and rebels against the government by keeping a diary full of his thoughts. He becomes a full blown insurgent by having an affair with Julia.