To get a
better understanding of life in a totalitarian state, it's always best to see things through the
eyes of awith whom we can identify. That's wherecomes in. There's nothing particularly
remarkable about Winston, and that's precisely howintended it. Winston is a kind of everyman
character, an ordinary Joe who doesn't much stand out from the crowd. Among other things, this
means that we can put ourselves in his shoes and understand more readily the day to day
struggles of livingor rather, existingin such a grim, repressive society.
In
a world where the state creates its own reality, its own parallel universe of lies and
propaganda, it's important that there's at least one person who still holds fast to the truth,
someone who is prepared to assert that two plus two equals four. Winston is able to do this
because, unlike most people in Oceania, he's still old enough to remember the pre-revolutionary
past, a past that the state is actively seeking...
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