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Essay on Protagonist
The portrayal of Winston Smith in George Orwell's novel (1984) Nineteen Eighty Four is rather complex. Sometimes Winston Smith appears to be a real personality with masculine prowess, on the other hand, some times his own personality goes down under the darkness of wickedness. Though, from head to toe, his picture depicts himself a genuine male protagonist but, sarcastically speaking, the so-called protagonist looks to be quite enslaved in the filth of endless lust throughout in Nineteen Eighty Four. Beyond all shadow of doubt, he has been presented as sole protagonist in Nineteen Eighty Four but the same protagonist comes out as a womanizer and voracious sexual partner that puts him far from the ranks of most accepted heroes in literary world.
Eleven years prior to the beginning of the action in 1984, Winston Smith accidentally comes across a photograph of three men: Jones, Aronson, and Rutherford. The "party" had contrived a plot to prove the three guilty of treason. The picture, however, because of its true location and date in relation to the party's false scenario, shows the men's innocence. The picture provides Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, with "concrete, unmistakable evidence of falsification" of the past. Winston finally realizes, eleven years after the fact, that he held in his hands a document that could "blow the party to atoms". For thirteen seconds before sending the picture into the memory chute, Winston Smith had in his hands the fate of Oceania. Winston latently wants that power again, and the novel is propelled by that desire.
According to Nineteen Eighty Four, Winston's entries in the diary that he bought from Mr. Charrington provide the first signs of his desire to regain that power. However, writing what he can remember as the truth in his diary does not release him from the control of the inner party, from his pigeonhole of mental duress.....
