Winston Doomed to Fail?

When the coalition failed, Winston was amongst the liberals. He didn't necessarily agree with their terms about socialists and anti-socialists. He wanted all of the anti-socialists to come together and vote against the enemy runner of the coalition. The conservative agreed to vote for Winston and the coalition but they went behind his back and voted against it. The conservatives actually wanted the coalition to fail. Winston was also a member of the “Centre Party” (Broad 200). That is when he combined his beliefs and showed support for both of the conservatives and the liberals this way they would both vote to keep the coalition. But in the end they both failed him. “So Winston found himself, as he said, ‘without an office, without a seat,

In the novel, Winston is a character who lacks "hero" traits as he has more traits of an everyman than a hero. Winston is an out of shape, average man with a "varicose ulcer above his right ankle" (3). Considering the typical hero, not only does Winston lack the physical strength, he lacks the mentality as well. Throughout the novel, he consistently talks about "overthrowing the Party," but he never actually does it. Instead of overthrowing the Party, he rebels by purchasing a diary and writing sentences such as "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" (20) and " I don’t care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck" (21). Winston chooses to write these into his diary as he is too cowardly to say this in public. As time passes, his

Even though Winston contributed to committing acts against the government that are quite courageous, it was all in a discrete manner. Instead of engaging in an open revolt, Winston’s sexual escapades with Julia and journal entries were in secrecy and remote locations that were never repeated twice, also in the room provided by Mr.Charrington. I interpreted Winston’s approach to act in confidence from everyone around him out of the fear of the reactions of people during the two minute hate, telescreens, hidden microphones, and brainwashed, spying neighbours outing you at the first open moment to save themselves very cowardice rather than make an open revolt. The open revolt would have spoken actions of a hero, “ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed”. Basically even if Winston’s public revolt to get others to go against rather than conform to the Party’s laws and live in fear didn’t succeed, it would have been the effort that counts for what a hero would do to better a country, people, or even the world. The fear Winston felt and had thought of in the back of his mind that he mentioned all kept him regretting the actions he took part in.

     Tired of feeling the way he is, with the monotonous struggle of everyday life Winston decides to oppose the party in more real ways; and begins to deviate from certain set behaviors to free himself from this bondage of the party. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone”(25-26). He has realized what the government does to people; how everyone is made to be the same, where no one is allowed to think on their own. The party is omnipotent in all affairs and he will not go along with it anymore. Winston has made up his mind; he is going to do everything he can to bring down the party. He and Julia go to O’Brien’s apartment one afternoon, and Winston’s true hatred is revealed. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party,

In 1984, Winston Smith lives in a world where the government, the Party, intrudes on the private lives of common people for the pure power it entails. He is one of few, if not the only, person who is against this life and detests the world of lies he lives in. Winston’s memories both aids and hinders his ability to fight against the Party and society, but it ultimately leads to his downfall as humanity’s last hope.

Due to Winston’s age, he has some memories of what life was like before Big Brother, but Julia is young and only knows what life under the power of Big Brother is like. Also, Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he deletes obsolete documents, when Julia works as a mechanic for the machines in the Ministry of Truth. Therefore, Winston is more aware of all of the lies Big Brother tells the people of Oceania. Winston understands the technique of using false history, but does not understand why Big Brother thinks it is necessary. At the end of the novel, Winston is able to admit to O’Brien, “Who controls the past controls the future.

Big Brother and the Party needed impregnable loyalty so over time they systematically tore the ties between lovers and family. “We [The Party] have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman, No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.” (267). A government like Oceania’s is dependant on “no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party” so they created a system that creates Party loyalty as the only reliable option. Winston’s life is merely an example of the Party’s plan in action.

This scene rightfully depicts the fact that no matter what Winston did, things would not end well for him and he was quite aware of that. Winston clearly states at the end of the novel that he is now dead inside, no longer a real human being. This becomes completely obvious to the reader when he says he “love[s] Big Brother” (298). That line means, in the bleakest of terms, he is not a person because he cannot be original, he cannot be himself.

Winston could not defeat the Party, however he makes small acts which rebel against the party and by doing this he is trying to be a "leader" to show the other members of the party that something needs to be done. He still proves that he is a questing hero through his courage, strong mentality and his ability to look past his limitations.

Believing that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood and he too is opposed to the Party, Julia and Winston pay him a visit at his apartment. O’Brien tells the two that they must be willing to lose their own lives in order to take down Big Brother; however, when he asks if they would be willing to betray one another, they refuse. Winston’s hatred for Big Brother has accumulated so much that he is now willing to die solely for the sake of taking down the Party. At the start of the novel, Winston could not stand the thought of his own death. The thought haunted him, and he was not prepared for that to happen. As the story progresses and Winston is being oppressed in more and more ways, he despises the Party more than ever, and eventually is

Winston Smith struggles to grasp on to any type of rebellion from the Party. He is destroyed by the nightmare that he left his mother and sister when he was young. His passion for Julia is his failures to be loyal to someone different than Big Brother. His loyalty proved to be very weak and it is seen how week when his loyalty falls apart in the Ministry of Love.

Winston fell in love with a woman he worked with named Julia. He and Julia shared the same beliefs and frustrations with the government. They both felt like they needed to rebel against the country's regulations. Winston wanted to outwardly rebel against the government. He wanted to make life better for future generations with freedoms and individuality. Julia knew that cooperating with the party outwardly and rebelling in

The main character in George Orwell’s 1948 novel, 1984, Winston Smith can be seen as many things. To some, he may be a hero, but to others he is a coward and a fool. Throughout the novel, Winston’s characteristics are explored, and readers are shown the reasoning behind Winston’s twisted mind. It is evident that although Winston thinks he had control over his own mind and body, this is an imagined factor. The world of 1984 is one of a totalitarian society, where no one can be trusted, and no one is safe, Winston being the primary example of one who trusted thoughtlessly.

Winston also shows determination throughout the novel. For example, when he was caught for having an affair with Julia, he did not give up his beliefs. O’Brien tortured Winston severely for thought crime and for the fact that he was willing to join brotherhood. However, until the very end of his pain Winston still said he hated Big Brother and that he did not like what they were doing. No matter how much pain he went through, Winston stood up for what he believed and he expressed his beliefs. When O’Brien asked

Additionally, the portrayal of this dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian government might have been understood well by contemporary audiences, mirroring the rules of totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy- the citizens have no influence on the government and have no freedom of choosing the rules that govern and control every part of their lives. Therefore, Winston blames the misery in his life totally and completely on the government and on Big Brother. In Winston’s case, we can see that the propaganda, deprivation, and strict rules fail to make him concur with the party and accept Big Brother- in this situation, the party has to use extreme force and torture to make Winston love the party as well as Big Brother, in order for the party to maintain complete power.