Winston A Hero In George Orwell's '1984'

The word “hero” can be defined as many different things. Everyone has their own definition for the word. Orwell doesn’t portray Winston as a hero but in moments of the book the reader has sympathy for Winston and most heroes are sympathized in movies and books. Is Winston a hero or not? In the end Winston loses to the Party but all through the book the reader has sympathy for Winston and he has good intentions and qualities and a weakness. These qualities also show that Winston is a human being. When Winston has his dream of when he got separated from his mother and sister “He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and sister had been sacrificed to his own… His mother’s memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return” (Orwell 28). Orwell tries to make the reader connect …show more content…
Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!’” (Orwell 235-236). At this moment Winston does not come out as a hero or sound like one; Orwell shoes that Winston is only human and does not want to be killed. That is what makes him a hero. In most superhero movies there is always a weakness. In Superman it is Kryptonite; Batman it is his city and love; Spiderman it is his family and M.J. Every superhero has a weakness but that only shows us that they are like us and are human too. Orwell does not portray Winston as a hero but he has the same qualities as a hero; the ready has sympathy for him, he has good intentions, and he has a weakness that makes him a human being. That is why Winston is a hero. He is a hero that fails but a hero none the