Posted by Tim Cratchit on March 05, 2002 at 04:26:43:
In Reply to: is Winston a hero posted by Todd and Crystal on March 04, 2002 at 10:16:28:
no, he is a partly sane and partly decent (but not a fully decent) man that hates the Party and is fond of the past. Unlike the other party members, he has not been totaly brainwashed and he starts emancipating himselves from the ideology.
He is not suicidal, rather he is fatalistic, he knows from the beginning that it is not going to end very nicely.
His fight it is about him being able to be independent, to have privacy and love, and there is also some idealism added to the mix, but his motives are primarily selfish. (As they are for the most of us.)