![]() It is then that Winston also discovers that this good friend Mr. They go back to it to their room where the Thought Police burst in to apprehend them. Both Winston and Julia visit him where he gives them a copy of “ The Book,” which contains the truth about Big Brother. He believed O’Brien could sympathize with his resentment of the Party. Winston had always believed O’Brien not to be politically conformist. ![]() O’Brien finds an excuse to accord Winston his home address. More importantly, he does not take time to contemplate about O’ Brien’s intentions of initiating them into the Brotherhood, a secret organization committed at fighting Big Brother. Heroes are not afraid to get what they want. Unlike Julia, who is not afraid to get what she wants and who tries to get pleasure in a manner that is strictly forbidden, Winston fears that they will be caught (Luigi 31). He is surprised and troubled by the note as sexual relations between Party members are forbidden. When Winston aids her to get up she slips a note in his hand that says, “I love you”. It is there that he meets Julia, who works in another department therein. Charrington, a parole proprietor of a junk-shop. He has been married to Katherine, but they have been separated for over a decade because he felt that she was too indoctrinated into the Party for his comfort. His level of braveness is less than that of a hero. Though his act of keeping a diary is an act of rebellion, he is afraid that he will be caught one day: Winston is terrified that the Thought Police will come for him, now that he has indulged in such utterly forbidden ideas, but when there is a knock on the door, it is only his neighbor Mrs Parsons, with a plumbing difficulty. The author also presents him as a very fearful man. However, he does not come out loud and demand to know the truth, but only decides to keep a personal record of occurrences, the diary, where he outpours his rebellious thoughts. While at the Ministry of Truth, he loves and is good at his job of rewriting history, but he worries about faking it and wants to know the truth and write the exact things of what really happen. His appearance can be misleading as it is against the conventional heroic mode, but it can’t disqualify anyone who is unfit for being a hero. He is not fit physically and has to stop several times when ascending the stairs and has difficulty in regulating physical jerks. He is presented as a small and frail looking man, with a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. He works as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, where he fakes historical documents to match with the demands and opinions of his leader, Big Brother. He is a quiet 39-year-old man living in Oceania in 1984. The author first presents him as a perfectly normal person. The whole reading of the novel, therefore, presents a courageous man who rebels the system of ruling but not a hero. Orwell’s definition denotes a hero as a person who does not give up despite the harshness of the circumstances. He does not fit properly in Orwell’s definition of a hero: an ordinary person doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed. However, it ultimately denied of his heroism by his giving in to the party’s rule. This act of rebellion and others discussed below first reveal him as a hero. He does this even though he knows that keeping a diary is a crime and that one day he will be caught by the police and most probably killed. ![]() He starts a diary in which he exposes his rebellious thoughts. Winston secretly hates the Party and starts to rebel. ![]() Thinking about questioning the government’s principles would also be a crime (Orwell 34). No one could however, question the Big Brother’s system of ruling. The people are segregated into three different social classes: the Proles (poor), the Party (middle class) and the Inner Party (the rich). He loathes the social systems that govern the citizens therein. The name of the state is Oceania where Winston is a resident. The Party controls all aspects of people’s lives, including their thoughts. The novel presents an imaginary future of 1984 governed by a group known as the Party, whose ruler and dictator is a Big Brother. Winston Smith is the main character of a novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell and published in 1949.
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