Who Is The Hero In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Words: 1269
Pages: 6

Winston Smith is the protagonist of a novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four composed by George Orwell and distributed in 1949. The novel displays an imaginary future of 1984 administered by a gathering known as the Party, whose despot is called Big Brother. The Party controls all parts of individuals' lives, including their musings. The name of the state is Oceania where Winston is an occupant. He loathes the social frameworks that administer the residents therein. They are led by extreme dread. They have no social equality and freedoms. The general population is isolated into three diverse social classes: the Proles (poor), the Party (working class) and the Inner Party (the rich). Nobody could, in any case, address the Big Brother's arrangement of ruling. Contemplating scrutinizing the administration's standards would likewise be a wrongdoing (Orwell 34). Winston subtly detests the Party and begins to revolt. He begins a journal in which he uncovered his insubordinate musings. He does this despite the fact that he realizes that keeping a journal is a wrongdoing and that one day he will be caught by the police and most likely killed. This demonstration of resistance and others first uncover him as a hero. In any case, it eventually prevented from securing his heroism by his …show more content…
He gives in when a pen of rats is put on his head. Heroes don't surrender. Conventional heroes are not afraid to die for the sake of their causes and for humankind. They are captured and tormented and yet don't give into something they don't have faith in. Nelson Mandela, for example, was detained and tormented for 27 years. Amid this time, he received several guarantees that he could be discharged in the event that he halted his disobedience to the government of the then white government in South Africa. He stayed in prison and even died there as opposed to relenting to the principles of the administration (Mandela