Winston Smith
Winston Smith, the main character of the book “1984” works in the minister of truth department. He is a thin and frail man who’s about 40-ish years old with a varicose vein above his right ankle which gave him trouble walking.
Early on in the book Winston shows how much he dislikes many women because he cannot have them as they are too young and pretty for him, because of this he wishes he can rape and kill this one-woman named Julia because she has a red ribbon tied around her waist which indicates she doesn’t engage in sexual activity.
Winston is a curious man who follows the rules of Big Brother as most people in Oceania do, he is no different from everyone else. But he does seem to question Big Brother’s ways just like his mother and father did before they died when he was 9 in a purge, since then he has been parentless.
The more you read into the book Winston shows more and more discontentment towards Big Brother, “Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down” (Orwell 2023).
Winston is a strange character at the start, but I hope his reasonings makes more sense as we read the story.
