Winston Smith Bravery

George Orwell’s 1984, contains a large number of characters, each with their own set of traits that make them unique to the story, however, the protagonist, Winston Smith, despite being a regular person, shows the bravery, fatalism, and passion that no other character in Orwell’s novel does.

One of Winston’s more distinguishable traits is his bravery. This is shown to be characteristic of Winston because he decides to go against the Party willingly, despite working for it. The Party knows that there are people who are against them, and they always take the rebels captive and eventually kill them.”Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one time existence was denied and then

It is established early in the novel that Winston is conflicted of his beliefs and that he dislikes the oppressive system that is the Party, as such, Winston's passion had no place to be expressed. This was the case until the arrival of Julia, who showed Winston the freedom of not having the consequences of the supposed crimes that he was committing.When asked, “What are your true feelings to Big Brother?” Winston replies simply with, “I hate him.” (p.282) Later on, after Winston was captured and sent to the Ministry of Love, Orwell depicts Winston’s passion for Julia to be great, as it took many months to “break” Winston and make him “love Big Brother.”

Upon cursory reading, 1984 is a thrilling novel with interesting characters and a captivating plot, however, after analysis, one realized the depth of meaning behind the novel’s writing. Winston Smith is an ordinary man, in his thirties, trying to live in a totalitarian society where free thought is considered a crime. His actions and behaviors would most likely be that of any ordinary person who would be living in the same