Examples Of Winston A Hero In 1984

In 1984 by George Orwell a story about a man who is living in a strict totalitarian dictating government, Winston Smith objects them in almost every way conceivable since he loathes the way the Party is set up. On the one hand, Winston proves how he is a hero through his rebellious acts, double life, and bravery. On the other hand, Winston expresses his anti-heroic side when he becomes selfish and fails to stay true to his beliefs throughout the whole story.
One of a hero’s main and highly respected qualities is bravery, and Winston proves how he is willing to be brave and risk being caught committing “thoughtcrime”. His diary is one of the ways Winston shows that he is courageous. By Winston keeping a diary, he is committing thoughtcrime because

Winston creates the dream vision of the future through his fantasy of the Party being overthrown to result in a fair government. Winston believes the government is rotten and rigorous, which helps bring out his heroic characteristic of being an inspiring man. He has a vision for what he wants Oceania to become and Winston feels that the proles need “only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies” and if they want, they can “blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning” and be “conscious of their own strength” (69). Winston indicates that “If there is hope” he continues in his diary, “it lies in the proles” (82). The proles take up about 85% of the population, and in Winston’s eyes, if they all work together they would be able to come against the Party and create a revolution against them. Winston has an imaginative mind and later in the book he claims that the “power that would one day overturn the world” lies “in the proles”. He feels that the fate of the Party would lie in their hands and “when their time came, the world they constructed would not be just as alien to him” since “at the least it would be a world of sanity” (220). Winston expresses one of his heroic qualities through displaying his vision for the good of

Winston fails to stay true to his belief of staying loyal to Julia going against how a hero is someone who is idealized for being moral. As part of the Party’s plan to reintegrate those who have rebelled against them, the final step is going to room 101 that holds “the worst thing in the world” (283). Winston and Julia have fail to betray each other throughout their obscure time in the Ministry of Love until one of Winston’s greatest fears, rats are literally brought to the table. Winston fears rats more than anything and he did not want to interact with them in any negative way causing him to yell out “'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her” (286). A hero faces their fears and when Winston will not come face to face with the rats he is proving to not be a hero. Winston fails to be ethical and right when it comes to facing his own fears, which indicates that he is an anti-hero. Likewise to Winston’s failure to show heroicness once he got wrapped in misfortune, Winston is similarly an anti-hero when he lacks integrity and though Winston has heroic qualities, he fails to stick to his viewpoints towards the Party throughout the entire novel. The Party has a way of putting ideas into the minds of their citizens that are false, but sometimes they are still obey because what the