Winston Smith - Original Writing

Winston Smith believes that hope for the future lies in the proles because it's their rebellion that can bring down Big Brother, and Usher in the change of the government. Proles ,proletarians, working class, and comprise make up about 80% of the population. Also Winston sees proles as happy workers who are not smart. Although they might not be that smart the workers are free from scrutiny and constant morning party. Smith hates Big Brother and the numerous restrictions it makes a difference on the party workers. He works in the Ministry of Truth which is responsible for altering and editing

A tragic hero can be described as a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is

“We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But...[this is] wrong. The real hero’s journey is the journey from strength to weakness.” The real hero shows the ability to rise above challenges, even in a state of weakness, and wind up victorious. The real hero is flawed, but his courage, selflessness, and sacrifices for the greater good will rise above all. Winston Smith of 1984 is described as a “small frail figure” with a “varicose ulcer above his right ankle.” This is evidently not the image conjured when one imagines a hero, but due to the deceiving nature of appearances, we must consider his actions. What does Winston do? He writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” repetitively in his diary, he engages in a

characters in the novel had to go through. Winston Smith a 39 year old and member of the

Have you ever had a dog that seems to hate you? Well, that is my dog, Winston. He is an Australian Shepherd. We call Winston a bunch of different names; Winstonian, Winstancestonople, and Winnie-Winnie-Winston. We got him when he was 2 years old, now he is 4. Winston’s name was Harley, but I renamed him when we got him. I got him as a birthday present from my grandpa. I have resented Winston from the time we got him, so he really does not like me. He is definitely the only one of his kind. Since the day we got Winston, we have had an extremely, unique relationship.

The story of a tragic hero is always an intriguing one. Regardless of the story, there are always certain elements of the protagonist that depict them as the tragic hero; someone who knows that they are doomed, yet still perform actions that would eventually lead them closer to their demise. In “1984” by George Orwell, the protagonist, Winston Smith, lives under a totalitarian government, keeping watch on its citizens with telescreens, and catching those who even think of stepping out of line against the government as criminals. Winston is one of the people who has these thoughts, and knows it is only a matter of time before he is caught for it. As such, Winston is an excellent example of a tragic hero, as he knew that his fate is sealed

Winston Smith arrived at his home at the Victory Mansions during a horrible blizzard. The house looked spooky with the smell of old cabbage stained throughout the halls and portraits whose eyes would follow him. Winston was a normal man, working at his job in the Records Department. Nothing really out of the ordinary. He is sort of pessimistic in some ways.

Living in the country with a totalitarian government system can be very challenging for the people living there due to the facts that they can not think for themselves and everything is being controlled by the government. This is shown in the novel 1984 by George Orwell which is about a 39 year old man name Winston Smith who battles against unjust treatment in his country by going against the government.Totalitarian government is also shown in the film ‘V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue which is about a masked vigilante named “V” who also battles against the unjust treatment of his government in hopes to be anarchy free so he can free the people of the totalitarian government.Both of these works have a theme of good vs. evil through

Winston Smith, just an average middle class man, working at The Ministry of Truth, which is associated with new, media, and entertainment. His job at Minitrue is to destroy and rewrite pieces of history according to The Party’s agenda. Because of his profession, he sees people and events being lost forever. One instance that Winston remembers vividly, was when he found a picture of men in New York, during the same time they were supposedly committing treason in Eurasia. Knowing that The Party was lying about these men, Winston destroyed the picture in the memory hole, never to be seen again. Winston’s yearning for rebellion comes from an abstract, undirected idea that there were imperfections in society’s leadership. However, he did not want a true rebellion to occur.

Winston was dreaming of his mother. He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years old when his mother had disappeared. She was a tall, statuesque, rather silent woman with slow movements and magnificent fair hair. His father he remembered more vaguely as dark and thin, dressed always in neat dark clothes (Winston remembered especially the very thin soles of his father's shoes) and wearing spectacles. The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties. At this moment his mother was sitting in some place deep down beneath him, with his young sister in her arms. He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby, always silent, with large, watchful eyes. Both of them were

Winston’s role in George Orwell’s novel, 1984, is not solely that of our protagonist, but of a tragic hero as well. Winton’s story is not unusual, but that of a tragic hero. Not only does Winston possess the typical path of a tragic hero, but he possesses a tragic flaw as well. 1984 shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man named Winston in a the dystopian and totalitarian future of Oceania.

"On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran." (Orwell 4 "Nineteen").

Winston has written “Down with Big Brother” boldly in his diary and he was in fear that he might get caught. Suddenly, someone knocks on his door and his heart races against his will. Winston thinks that authority has come to detain him but to his relief, it was just his neighbor. The woman exclaims that her sink is clogged and asks for Winston to inspect it. When Winston arrives, he realizes that the room of Mrs. Parsons is disgusting. Mrs. Parsons is in doubt that any of the uncleanliness is her fault and that her husband Tom would have cleaned everything if he was present. While Winston tries to repair the sink pipe, the children of Mrs. Parsons charge after him: One nine year old boy and a seven year old girl. Both of them are in uniform

based on the Nazi’s SS. Tele screens DO NOT let you make a single move

The novel begins with the introduction of the protagonist, a thirty-nine-year-old, fragile Winston Smith, entering the Victory Mansions apartment buildings in Oceania. On his way through the apartment buildings, Smith sees one of the many constantly reoccurring motifs throughout the novel, the phrase “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, printed on a large poster depicting ‘Big Brother’, a ruling figure that no one sees but everyone practically worships out of what seems to be a combination of love and fear, as well as many places throughout the dreary setting of Oceania. Something else that can be seen all throughout Oceania is the telescreen, “an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror” that was present