Winston Smith 1984 George Orwell
Winston Smith, the protagonist and main character in George Orwell's novel 1984. Smith is a very important aspect of Orwell’s novel, because it is through his point of view that we see the world he is living in. Reading the story through Smith’s point of view helps better understand why Smith behaves the way he does. To better understand Smith one must understand smith’s role. Smith is minor member of the ruling Party in near-future London, Winston Smith is a thin, frail, contemplative, intellectual, and fatalistic thirty-nine-year-old. _______Winston hates the totalitarian control and enforced repression that are characteristic of his government, Big Brother. Smith once stated, “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until
after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious” (pg 123). Smith understands and feels the suffering that exists in the totalitarian society of Ocean. Smith shapes my understanding of the founding of United States of America in through his identity and humanism. George Orwell, the author of 1984, expresses and represents Smith as “feeling”. For this same reason, a there us hope throughout the book that things will change. For example,
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed. (Orwell, 78)
Earlier in the text humanism in Smith was mentioned.In my understanding it is not humanism that he possesses but humanism that he lacks, introducing Julia, Smith's lover comes in. Julia, unlike smith, represents humanity in her cunning survival ways. Julia exclaims, “I hate purity , I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones (pg 123). As stated before Smith represents feeling, because he is emotional about the Party and its potential downfall.
after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious” (pg 123). Smith understands and feels the suffering that exists in the totalitarian society of Ocean. Smith shapes my understanding of the founding of United States of America in through his identity and humanism. George Orwell, the author of 1984, expresses and represents Smith as “feeling”. For this same reason, a there us hope throughout the book that things will change. For example,
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed. (Orwell, 78)
Earlier in the text humanism in Smith was mentioned.In my understanding it is not humanism that he possesses but humanism that he lacks, introducing Julia, Smith's lover comes in. Julia, unlike smith, represents humanity in her cunning survival ways. Julia exclaims, “I hate purity , I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones (pg 123). As stated before Smith represents feeling, because he is emotional about the Party and its potential downfall.