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

about Winston is that he is very rebellious and does not like to listen to the party leaders. One example showing this trait is when Winston O’Brien tells Winston that he’s the last of his kind and that a new species of men will inhabit where he lives, “If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent." His manner changed and he said more harshly: "And you consider yourself morally superior to us, with our lives and our cruelty?" "Yes, I consider myself superior” (58-59 Orwell). As you can see Winston's rebellious personality shows here because everyone was brainwashed and accepts that they are controlled but Winston does not. Another example of him being rebellious was after he was beat for fantasizing about Julia and wanting her, but yet he was still not ready to give her up, “‘Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?’” Winston had stopped weeping, though the tears were still oozing out of his eyes. He looked up at O'Brien. “‘I have not betrayed Julia,’” said Winston. He had not stopped loving her; his feeling toward her had remained the same.” Despite being beat up for hours for loving Julia he still kept his private love of Julia. As you can see Winston is rebellious even after he was beat he still wants to rebel and not listen to BIG BROTHER.
    Winston is very strong in the beginning of the book but he becomes very weak and his downfall is the constant worry that the party is going to catch him and punish him for his actions, he has a sense of fatalism, “Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you.

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

party.
    In Conclusion, Winston is a very rebellious, hopeful, and weak person. Although he is weak he does not give up and I give him credit for resisting the B.B. for that long even after being beat multiple times and knowing what they would do to him if he got caught.