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Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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Beyond his total capitulation and submission to the party, Winston's fate is left unresolved in the novel. As Winston accepts that he loves Big Brother, he dreams of a public trial and an execution; however the novel itself ends with Winston, still in the Chestnut Tree Café, contemplating and adoring
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He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right,
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Winston is 39 years old at the beginning of the book. Like other major characters, he is a smoker and drinker (his gin and tobacco are of the low-quality "Victory" brand available to Outer Party members). It is mentioned that he has a wife, Katharine, from whom he has become estranged. Winston also
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and confronted by his worst fear: the unspeakable horror of slowly being eaten alive by rats. Terrified by the realization that this threat will come true if he continues to resist, he denounces Julia and pledges his loyalty to the Party. Any possibility of resistance or independent thought is
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Winston has a curious and intellectual nature (which ultimately puts him in the Party's sights). He has an affection for and interest in items and poetry from the past. Even before he begins an affair with Julia, he develops a rapport with the seemingly harmless
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on the back of his leg, a point repeatedly touched upon seemingly to exacerbate the sense of the poverty in which he lives.
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everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
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The character of Smith has appeared on radio, television and film in adaptations of the novel
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The Last Man: George Orwell's 1984 in Light of Friedrich Nietzsche's Will to Power
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at O'Brien's hands. However, his spirit finally breaks when he is taken into
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in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ... can readily identify with."
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The Orwell Conundrum: A Cry of Despair or Faith in the Spirit of Man?
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1949 novel also being born in 1945-46 according to the book
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destroyed when Smith is forced to accept the assertion
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in the novel. His name is usually taken to come from
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Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the
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The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
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Mizener, Arthur (1949), "Truth Maybe, Not Fiction",
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Index

Winston Smith (1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four

John Hurt
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Richard Widmark
Peter Cushing
Edmond O'Brien
John Hurt
The Brotherhood
Julia
protagonist
George Orwell
dystopian
Nineteen Eighty-Four
everyman

Ministry of Truth
rewrite historical documents
party line
unpersons
telescreen
Julia
O'Brien
The Brotherhood
resistance organisation
dictatorship
a book

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