Why Winston took the worst decisions possible

 


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Juan Pablo Molina                  November 2, 2022

 

Imagine you’re living in the totalitarian hell hole that is 1984 and one random day, a higher up from the same party that controls your every move, invites you for no apparent reason to his apartment. What would you do in this situation?

Well, if you’re Winston Smith you’ll dive right into the plan no questions asked, however if you are a normal person, you would definitely be skeptical and see the reality of the situation and how fishy it looks from an outsider’s perspective. From the start of the story, we can see how brainless and thick headed Winston actually was. I swear I found myself questioning every single one of Winston's moves in this book.

To begin with, he had some sort of weird obsession with O'brien from the moment they met.  He thought they shared a connection on a psychological and intellectual level just cause he followed his intuition and he began to speculate O’brien was against Big Brother and the party as well, something he ended up being VERY wrong about. Trusting O'brien is partially the reason he ended up being tortured and was taken to room 101. 

Getting together with Julia was also an oversight on Winston’s part, perhaps all of the pain that was brought upon him by the Party’s torture could have been avoided if he had never done anything about the note… But I guess we’ll never truly know. Julia was the one who opened his eyes and made him realize he could rebel against the party and not have these free thoughts all to himself. Winston was clearly at fault here, ironically, he was blinded by the passion he felt for this woman and did things that could clearly get him in a lot of trouble, and eventually did. He took risky decisions that ended up being in vain as Julia ended up snitching on him while being tortured.

So to recap,  Winston could have pretty much been saved and avoided being brainwashed by the end of this book if it wasn’t for his inability to make good decisions. Perhaps Winston’s biggest mistake was trusting anyone who lived under Big Brother’s iron fist, as we saw him getting duped by a higher up in the party and betrayed by a woman who thought loved him. 

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