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    Winston Smith is a thirdy-nine-year-old intellectual, fatalistic, frail and a thin man which is the minor member of the ruling Party in near-future London. We experience the nightmarish world that the writer envisions through his eyes. Winston is extremely pensive, curious and desperate to understand how and why the Party exercises has such absolute power in Oceania. He passionately hates the totalitarian control of his government and the Party. He has his own revolutionary dreams.He wants to test

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    Winston Smith 1984

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    1984 analysis The book Nineteen-eighty four by George Orwell is a dystopian fiction novel is based thirty years in the future. Where The main character Winston Smith lives in a totalitarian government that took over the United Kingdom but is now called Oceania. This scary novel shows what it would be like living in such a government where the rich are the leaders and then the rest are in the working class and they get oppressed, watched and treated very poorly. Nineteen eighty four is based on

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    Winston Smith: Main Character Orwell makes him very relatable to the average person (audience?) He does not know whether to be on Big Brothers side or not; lost Lives a life of confusion He begins to loose his self as the story goes on “Connects” with Obrien really well Julia: A woman in which Winston falls for (loves) Sparked a sense of hope into Winston’s mind Both rebelled against the same party Sex Symbol-has had sex with many members of the party including Winston Her and Winston’s relationship

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    In George Orwell’s 1984 novel Winston Smith is a key character but, I do not see him as being a hero by Orwell’s definition. Orwell defines a hero as “an ordinary person doing whatever they can to change the social system that does not respect the human decency, even with the knowledge that it can’t succeed.” I do not think that Winston displayed these characteristics; I believe that he did not like the system of government in Oceania and wanted a change, but I do not think that he did as much as

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    Yes, Winston Smith should definitely be considered as a hero. Winston Smith is the main character of George Orwell’s “1984”. He is a member of the Outer Party and is being ruled by the Inner Party. Because those who do not follow Big Brother are vanished and never seen again, he has to pretend that he is one of Big Brother’s loyal followers. Because all of the citizens know that they are being watched at all times, nobody seems to have enough courage to rebel because they think that they will either

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    The journey of a hero usually begins with downfall and ends with success. However, with Winston it is the other way around, his journey starts at success and ends with downfall. But that shouldn’t unqualify him from being a hero. Winston Smith is the hero of the novel because he shows courage, and has a strong mentality and he continuously looks past limitations. He basically was willing to do anything for what he believed in, an example of this could be when he made a promise to O’Brien saying that

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    In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith is a prime example of the oppressed fighting against the oppressor by his actions of minute resistance, giving his love to another, and joining a secret activists group. It is evident by the first chapter that Winston is not a fool, yet intends to play jester in public and continues the act in private. Winston is trapped in his own thoughts and is in dire need of an escape. He finds this evasive escape in the empty journal from Mr. Charrington. Winston’s diary

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    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. O’Brien- He is an Inner Party member, who plays Winston and gets him to believe that he is a member of the Brotherhood.

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    Winston Smith, Big Brother, Julia are three major characters in this novel. Winston Smith is a lower class citizen of Oceania who begins to have rebellious thoughts. Winston Smith is weak minded as shown here, “But he had finally understood that in the whole world there was just one person to whom he could transfer his punishment-one body that he could thrust between himself and the rats… Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her”(286). After all the torture

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    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 starts his adventure to freedom as a hard working employee in the Ministry of Truth, early on he secretly promises to put forth

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