Trace Winston's path toward destruction. Where do we first see his fatalistic outlook? Is his defeat inevitable?

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fatalistic from the get-go, and with good reason too. There's simply no way that he, or any
other individual in Oceania, can ever prevail against the forces of this totalitarian state. But
Winston's nothing if not courageous. And if he's to go downwhich he knows is inevitablehe'll go
down fighting. In a state where everyone is under suspicion, and all Outer Party members like
Winston are under almost constant surveillance, it doesn't take much for someone to be slung in
a prison camp or vaporized. So Winston probably figures that if this is indeed his fate in any
event, then he might as well show some defiance to a regime which he cordially
loathes.

Winston's innate fatalism is almost like a death-wish. It leads him
on to take increasingly dangerous risks, almost guaranteeing himself a trip to Room 101. Winston
knows from the very start that he's guilty because in Oceania everyone is
guilty of something, whether it's a thought-crime or, more rarely, a deliberate act
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