Who Is Winston A Hero

The definition of a hero falls basically the way the hero is willing to risk their life to abide by the true
Morals in the conquering the foundation of the inhumane treatment brought upon by the blameless for
The justice of everyone. The hero is supposed to be of the selfless act and thought. With thorough
Analysis of Winston and his thoughts and his actions throughout the novel, by Orwell’s definition,
Along with my own I do not consider Winston Smith to be a hero.
First to address that in a dystopian state there is not a clear manifestation of true heroism. In a society
Where the extent of every individual is merely greeting the fellow citizen, even then limited to the
“greetings comrade”, there are just the rebels. A rebel is what
Winston’s first encounter of the rebelling against the party was the day they wrote a journal entry in the
Secrecy consisting with the phrase “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”. After writing this, he knew
Immediately he was well he was condemned to be caught by the Thought Police and the due to this fact
Winston began carelessly engaging in the law breaking actions that put him at even greater risks.
His rebellion does further his own desires, but his primary goal is to undermine the government, at first
He is revolted by Julia, his first act of sleeping with her was done not out of the sexual desire, but done
Out of the desire to the rebel against and then weaken the government, in his and Julia’s opinion doing
Something for yourself and only for yourself was an act of rebellion, it was the central in their purpose
To revolt as it went against the only reason for the party’s existence, control and power.
Winston is nobody who is important in the book. He’s not the leader of an opposition party nor a
Revolutionary ring. He’s not a high official of the system. He’s just a worker. The actions of Winston’s are
Not big revolutionary actions either. Therefore, Winston is not extraordinary. Thought-crime does
His
Vulnerability makes him so very human. If anything is to go about, Winston is an anti-hero, but at the same time, he is nevertheless the protagonist of the story and an “Everyman” type all the same.

Julia: they can’t do that. It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can torture you, make you say everything. But they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you. They can’t get to your heart.

Julia and Winston both believe that at first, that their minds, their hearts are inaccessible. Obrien then shows them that both the wrong at the end and the everything Winston has done is negated. Not only does it never have any material consequence, but he loses the one thing he has kept safe throughout, his freedom of the mind and his freedom of the feelings.

I also think that Winston is not a hero, not even one, but at any no time that he wanted to be a hero, since he collaborated with the state he lived in, certainly through the means of his job, but I think he had problems with that from the very first beginning, these problems only evolve as the story goes