1984 Character Analysis

During the unraveling of 1984 the protagonist exponentially strays from the grasp of Big Brother and his ideologies. Through events and characters Winston encounters he becomes more independent in his thoughts and opinions which results in his pure disassociation from the party. By the end of the story, Winston devolves into a worse state than he originally was in at the start of the book becoming a docile party puppet. His friendship with O’Brien turns rotten when it is revealed O’Brien is not part of the rebel army and in fact he is part of the Thought Police and captures Winston and Julia (his significant other). They are to the Ministry of Love (Oceania’s CIA) for torturing and interrogation to dissect information from them. Before initiating his questioning, O’Brien explains that they interrogate a certain way which he is likely referencing the Nazis who “used hospitals to malnutrition and starve the opponents” (“German Interrogation”) which wore them down until they were unrecognizable dead men. This is relatable in the novel as Winston is told by his interrogator to see himself in a mirror, when he confronted the glass “An involuntary cry had broken out of him…He had stopped because he was frightened. A bowed, grey-coloured, skeleton-like thing was
Winston Smith, the protagonist, undergoes a drastic change in attitude and personality as he went from being a mundane party worker to developing into a form of freedom fighter. The change in his nature is credited to his environment and the characters that surround him, and he undergoes three major changes which are signified by the three parts to 1984, first being the infancy of his rebellious thoughts, the second attributed to his relationship with Julia and the final stage credited to the revelation of who O’Brien is which peaked his hatred before his ultimate downfall deeming him an obedient lover of Big