Is Winston A Hero In The Novel 1984

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We all have our own idea about what a hero is raging from a superhero who wears a cape and takes down the evil villain, to a soldier fighting for our country, to an ordinary person going out of their way to help others. Author George Orwell defines a hero as ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed. By this definition in his novel 1984 the main character, Winston, is not a hero.
Throughout the novel Winston does things that the party would most likely have him executed for, but this does not make him a hero. He expressed his negative thoughts about the party in a journal he wrote in out of sight of surveillance. He also falls