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1984 - College Essays

1984


Orwell named his hero after Winston Churchill, England's great
leader during World War II. He added the world's commonest last
name: Smith. The ailing, middle-aged rebel can be considered in many
different lights.
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1. You'll have to decide for yourself whether Winston is a hero in
his secret battle with Big Brother, or whether he's only a sentimental
man with a death wish, who courts his death openly through an
illegal love affair and through his alliance with the enemies of Big
Brother. ...

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and tortured,
trying to keep one last shred of personality intact.

b. If he's so heroic, why is he so foolhardy? It makes no sense
for him to create a permanent love-nest when he knows it will speed
his capture. "It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer
to their graves," he thinks. A careful man would never open up to
O'Brien without knowing whether he is to be trusted. You can argue
that Winston's continuing defiance of the Party after his capture is
one more way of courting disaster. Do you think Winston secretly
enjoys torture? Although he confesses to everything they want him
to, he extends the torture by continuing his inner defiance- something
the Party seems to know. Winston's thoughts in Part Two, Section IV,
point to this interpretation.
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