Winston Smith Character Analysis

People always think that the future will bring greater and better things. But, honestly do we even know if the future will be better than in the past? The answer is no we don't, not at all actually. We can't predict what the future holds though. In the book 1984, by George Orwell, the main character Winston Smith is not happy with the future so he tries to remember everything from the better past. There is a company called THE BIG BROTHER which controls you basically and telescreens tell you what to do and what to think think anything else is a thought crime, and the thought police will arrest you for it. Winston Smith is a rebel against THE BIG BROTHER, weak, and was very lonely because he was the only normal person alive. A distinct trait

Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull” (302 Orwell). Another thing that leads to Winston's downfall was that B.B. controlled everyone's mind besides Winston's and they wouldn't quit until everyone obeyed them, “One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face.” These quotes clearly show why Winston is weak. Winston is hopeful that B.B. will soon collapse and anything that hints towards it, excites him, “Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. Who knew, perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self denial simply a sham concealing iniquity. If he could have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly he would have done so! Anything to rot, to weaken, to undermine!” (54 Orwell). This shows that Winston is hopeful for corruption in the