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Archetypal Criticism - Winston, The Hero In Disguise 

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Archetypal Criticism - Winston, The Hero In Disguise 

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While reading the book, it is evident that Winston is going to be some sort of hero, seeing as how he is already on that path. He hates the people in power as they are ruining the world and he wants to join the organizations that goes against the ruling party to get some justice. He has expressed strong hate for Big Brother, so it's no surprise that he is trying to take them down one step at a time. He's making connections with others who will help him on his path to justice and freedom, which is why I think the 'hero' archetype fits him.

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If we view Winston's character through the feminist lit criticism it is apparent that Winston holds grudges against women. This may be because his mom left him early on or his rocky relationship with Katherine.

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"Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again."

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"Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again."

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This quote reminds me of Winston's fear. He fears that the Thought Police will catch him no matter what he does, yet he still rebels because of this reason. Basically, "if I'm gonna get caught, I might as well make it worthwhile". He constantly worries about being caught, but gives himself false hope and continues to break the rules.

Anyway, this quote sounds like foreshadowing...

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"Only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone" and now we have Winston completely fawning over this girl its easy to see that Winston is not in his right mind

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"If there is hope it lies in the proles"

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"If there is hope it lies in the proles"

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Winston knows that he can not take on the Party all by himself. He is helpless without help of others. He knows that the Party is wrong, but there is no possible way for him to go against the party, or he will be killed.

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I see Winston as an intelligent, quiet, and observant character during 1984. Winston kind of reminds me of Joe from the show you as he acts as if he's a normal guy but there is a lot going on in his head. They both give off a lurker energy and both are hiding their true feelings. (Tsehay)

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I see Winston as an intelligent, quiet, and observant character during 1984. Winston kind of reminds me of Joe from the show you as he acts as if he's a normal guy but there is a lot going on in his head. They both give off a lurker energy and both are hiding their true feelings. (Tsehay)

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Task 2-
"theyll shoot me i don’t care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother—— "
To me this quote best describes Winston because during the book he cares less and less about being caught for committing crimes. His character is too aware to still genuinely want to follow to party.

Task 3-
Using the psychological theory I question what allowed or made Winston different to become so aware in a world where they rewire your brain to be unconscious.

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He reminds me of Andreas from the Bothersome Man. They're both in a dystopian world and constantly break the rules to find out the truth and test the limits of the world they are in.
- both middle-aged
- both are very paranoid but are determined
- they had affairs in their worlds
- always being watched
- considered rebels
- both had 'partners in crime'

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winston reminds me of this guy, kyle reese, terminator

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winston reminds me of this guy, kyle reese, terminator

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Task 1
What is he like
-He's in his late 30s
- looks: thin, pale
- that man is sick (I don't remember what he has)
- he works at the Ministry of Truth
- his sex life wasn't the best. And he desperately wants to fulfill his sexual fantasies
- He frequently commits thoughtcrime by writing in his diary
- He dreams of a place, he calls the Golden Country
- He always has questions on what the past was actually like.
- He loves when other people breaks the law (example Julia, and what she tells him about other people in chapter 2)
- He hates the Party rules
- Misogynistic
- lowkey has anger issues

Task 2
- "Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you . . . I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."  (Part 2, Chapter 2)
- Winston clearly enjoys it when other individuals rebel against the party in this quote; it's one of the things he admires about Julia, but more importantly, he enjoys it in general. I believe in this chapter (I could be wrong tho) Julia informs Winston that she knows a lot of people who break party rules, and this excites Winston greatly that people rebelling.

Task 3
Feminist
- his thoughts about women are just vile
- His hatred for women especially the young one
- "I hated the sight of you…..I wanted to 🤬 you and then murder you afterwards..." - stuff like that very disgusting and downright wrong"

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Often unproblematic, but will eat its own eggs if it comes to survival.

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Winston Smith
- sickly: his physical appearance is always described as pale or ill looking and he has frequent coughing fits
- misogynistic: has made multiple comments about women being unable to think for themselves and are easily maniupulated
- pessimistic: no longer sees a reason to live until he meets Julia
- violent: has many extreme violent thoughts about other characters (e.g. smashing the man's head with an axe for just breathing)
- old
- rebellious but continues to follow the rules for his own safety
- constantly in heat

Task #2:
"Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you . . . I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones." - Chapter 2 Pt 2
- this was said to Julia after she admitted to the number of men she's been with
- displays his hatred for obedience: "i hate goodness"
- hatred for the junior sex league
- his sexual desires and his need to get it out of his system

"I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY." - Chapter 7 Pt 1
- constantly questioning the reasoning behind Big Brothers actions: why they are controlling the people and the past
- just before saying this, he was talking about the war between Eurasia and how it flip flops between Eastasia
- Winston's sorta obsessed with the past and the truth; he has had conversations with Julia trying to convince her to see its importance but she doesn't seem to care

Task #3
Feminist
- his thoughts about women are very concerning
- before meeting Julia, he said he wanted to r*pe and kill her because he believed her to be like "every other woman"
- has made comments claiming that women are the most easily manipulated and that every woman is a loyal party member with no unique thoughts
- has made several sexist commnets about his previous wife

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Ignore the haters shiv

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Description:
Thin, frail, intellectual, 39 yrs old, has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, secret rebellion, and has impulsive thoughts.

Quote:
"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone – to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings!"
I chose this quote because it displays his aversion the totalitarian society and his revolutionary dreams.

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Winston is a smart character with a ton of hidden anger towards any minor inconvenience he has; his troubled past has impacted him to react and respond in several different ways to cope -

Given this, I can compare him to Marc Spector. They both have hard parental pasts that negatively impact them, they also think of violence when something they don't like comes into play / behavioural comparisons
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"And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime"

Winston simply wants to... procreate... I feel like winston as a person has so many desires that he can never fulfil if he wants to survive, but thats what makes him human
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Feminist theory; Winston has the most misogynistic view about women; he constantly groups them into one ideology he has and belittles them when he gets mad. He then falls in love with the same woman he hated (?????) in the span of 2 seconds and does a 180 on his serial killer thoughts.....nice
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Using the Marxist lens it becomes clear that there are three distinctions in the society of Oceania. Winston's troubling past, and unprivileged life helps him understand the lives of the proles. He is able to correlate with their mindsets helping him to snoop under the party's regulations.

"Except the proles"
This signifies Winston's mindset as it matches with the proles. Since, Winston is able to recognize that the proles have an opposing opinion it shows that he is more like a prole than a party member.

-a middle aged man who has contradicting thoughts of what the party agrees with. As a worker at the Records Department he is aware of the party's lies and misinformation diplayed to the public
-He has an ordinary life but an extreme mindset from our pov as seen when he expresses his opinion on Julia. Also seen when he consciously violates the party despite the threat of being vaporized
-His emotions are easily swayed from one end to the other as seen during the two minute hate where he contemplates whether to hate Big Brother or Goldstein. Also seen when he easily falls in love with Julia where he was thinking of smashing her head with cobblestone just a few days prior.

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Task 1:
- very shrewd when analyzing the Party
- finds the Party's rules to be overbearing
- frail, thin, pale
- Late 30s, brown hair, sunken in eyes
- very sexually driven - probably because of the repressive nature of the Party

Winston reminds me of Beatrice Prior, the main character in the Divergent series. Both characters must hide their thoughts from everyone, as anyone could report them to the government for being a traitor/danger to society

Task 2:

"Nor did the idea of refusing [Julia's] advances even cross his mind. Only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone; but that was of no importance." (Page 115 in the old book)

This quote summarizes Winston's character quite well in my eyes. Winston saw Julia as the type of woman to follow the Party's words to a T. Chastity, submission, all the things the Party wishes to instill in women. He literally wanted to kill her. But the second she shows interest in him, he's suddenly throwing all his hatred for her and the Party out the window. He's so dominated by his insatiable thirst for sex that he is willing to go to bed with ANYONE, even if he thought of killing them less than a week prior.

Task 3: Feminist Lens (Trigger Warning: mentions of sexual violence)

Winston Smith is kind of a raging misogynist who pretty much hates women. He has very demeaning thoughts about women, saying that they're easily manipulated by the party - and has very sexually violent thoughts. One of the most shocking lines from him I read was when he admitted to Julia that he "wanted to r*pe [her] and murder [her] afterwards."

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Winston reminds me of beatrice from divergent.They are both in a dysopian also and oppose the natural order of things

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skinny dude, somewhat antisocial, position in society would be comparable to middle class.

he reminds me of neville longbottom from harry potter, both were minor characters to begin with who were just doing their own thing, but over time they gained the potential to cause major changes within the plot.

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- Middle aged 39 years old
- Has to abide by rules of the party, or he will be vaporized.
- Rebellious nature, but is scared to act out.
- Unempathic
- Thinks that his family sacrificed themselves so that he can live on.

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Winston reminds me of a mouse. He is frail, thin, pale, with a pointed face. This is ironic given the fact that his greatest fear is of rats (more to come on that). He also has an insatiable desire for sex with women, although contrary to what one might believe in reading the story today, it's less about him being a sexual predator or sex addict, and more so about what sex represents (anti-party beliefs) that gets him so hot and bothered.

"He pressed his fingers against his eyelids again. He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked. The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever." Represents the futility to oppose the Party despite his ferverous efforts to do so.

Using the Reader Response Theory (I know, kind of a cop-out), I can say with 100% certainty that Winston's pessimistic, brooding and depressing views on his world makes for a downer of a read. The world building is excellent, but I really don't like the main character of 1984 - tragic.

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1. Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne

winston reminds me of katniss everdeen from the hunger games; they're both from a dystopian society, they both break laws frequently, they both hide their crimes from people like the thoughtpolice/peacekeepers.

*SPOILERS AHEAD* after reading more, i feel like winston fits gale and julia fits katniss more. winston cares more about the "bigger picture" and taking down the oppressive society. gale wants to be a big part of the rebellion and he's been planning on leaving district 12 since the first hunger games book. julia, like katniss, only really cares about how the government affects her life alone. katniss just wanted to win the games and live her life in peace, the same way julia doesn't care for winston's ramblings about the party. julia just wants to sleep with winston and hide it from the thought police.

2. "I understand how. I do not understand WHY."

this is what winston writes in his notebook when he is talking about how the party alters the past. he works in the outer party, he understands HOW the past is changed. he doesn't understand why, though. he wonders if he is a lunatic for believing this. this quote basically explains winston's entire thought process and feelings about the party. he doesn't know why he's working there and helping the party alter things. most other people working there probably just do as they're told, but winston is thinking about his actions, which sets him apart.

3. Feminist Lens.

winston's views of women are very violently misogynistic. it is difficult to tell whether these are orwell's own misogynistic views of women seeping through or if his intention was to display how the patriarchal society affected winston, but it is still very unnerving to read about.

**SPOILERS** after winston and julia meet, she asks for his opinion on her, and he tells her that a few days prior, he wanted to 🤬 and murder her. i think winston needs to... seek psychological help because that is very concerning. he also frequently feels very entitled to sex. when julia tells him that she is on her period, he gets angry about it. he feels like he's been cheated out of it. this is similar to how many men in this day and age still feel a sense of entitlement to women and their bodies.

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