Maybe not now, but soon everyone will see the true antihero that he is based on what is to come. He writes in a journal and writes about how he hates Big Brother and the entire government as a whole. Even though he doesn’t do anything out of the ordinary in public, he does in private. He sometimes seems like just a normal Joe, one who gets sick and lives in poverty. Orwell created him right after WWII so I’m sure there are many solider like characteristics in Winston.
As he sits in his indent writing secrets and his true feelings, something is building up inside of him that will be released very soon and send the world into a tumble.Įven though he doesn’t seem like the type, Winston is a very brave man deep down. I know it doesn’t seem so now, but Winston is going to change the world with what he is doing. He is going against the government and Big Brother in one of the smallest ways but it will make a huge difference in the long run. 1984 Winston Smith Character Analysis In the book 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith, although he isn’t physically described much yet it is known he had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle (1:15). He seems like a normal guy but is really hiding something grand. Nothing really stands out about him and which makes the mind wonder and be drawn towards him. Orwell created Winston as a simple and nearly background character.
Throughout reading this novel so far, I have come to notice that Winston is the perfect candidate for being the antihero in this story of the future. He is insanely clever, smart, and quite an observer. He seems fairly normal as a middle age man who sits at home in his small flat, what makes him special is his brains. He has many flaws, physical and mental concerning the ulcer in his leg and how he crumples under pressure. At first glance he doesn’t seem like it in the least, but he is. For example, Hitler and Stalin used this kind of torture to keep their power and did it in the name of "purity." O'Brien represents these leaders and others, who use cruelty and torture as their primary method of control.In the book 1984, I believe that Winston is a perfect example of an antihero. The character of O'Brien is not so different from many of the contemporary leaders of the 20th century. If Winston would simply embrace the Party's doctrine, he would be "clean." But it is not really Winston that O'Brien and the Party want to change the Party wants to purify all thought, believing that one stray thought has the potential to corrupt the Party. O'Brien is trying, through torture, to make Winston "perfect," to "save" him. O'Brien is often seen as a father figure and a friend to Winston.
He is not the individual being tortured, though he would have Winston and the reader believe that the "rehabilitation" once happened to him as well. This statement illustrates a consciousness that would be dangerous for an Outer Party member to have, so it is possible that O'Brien shares the same consciousness as Winston, but because of his status in the Party, has no reason to want society to change. There is no evidence to sustain the idea that O'Brien truly believes in the concepts that he forces upon Winston beyond his statement to Winston in the Ministry of Love that the Party had gotten him (O'Brien) long ago. Whether or not he truly believes contradictory notions simultaneously, he is determined to teach Winston to do so. O'Brien is not only duplicitous in nature, but he also seems to be able to employ doublethink very well. This effect is partly a result of his mysteriousness and partly because the novel hinges on O'Brien's "turnabout" actions if he were given more time on the page, his true nature would have been revealed too soon. While Winston is characterized as an individual, a small man in a large society, O'Brien is bigger than life and remains so throughout the novel. Without O'Brien, the Party would be as mysterious to the reader as it is to Winston and Julia. He functions largely to bring the reader into the inner chambers of the Party so that its mechanisms can be revealed.
O'Brien represents the Party and all of its contradictions and cruelty. O'Brien seems to be a co-conspirator and friend to Winston Smith until the third part of the novel, when he is revealed as a zealous Party leader who had been closely watching Winston for years. He seems to be close to Big Brother and may even be part of a collective that makes up Big Brother. O'Brien is a prominent leader in the Inner Party, although his official title is not clear.
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