Predictions for Winston

               At the end of Book One, Winston is sort of crippled against his own inhibitions. Once he gets back to his apartment, he contemplates suicide so the Party will not capture him and kill him themselves. Before he succumbs to the thought of ending his life, he remembers what O’Brien whispered to him, “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness”. Those words are what keep Winston from going through with suicide but still makes him terrified of what could happen to him. He stares at a coin in his pocket of Big Brother and reflects on the slogan associated with him-WAR IS PEACE- FREEDOM IS SLAVERY-IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

               My predictions for Winston are that he will go through with trying to take down the Party with O’Brien and that he will do it through the Proles. Though Book One ends with an uninspiring tone, I do think that Winston has a lot of anger and oppression inside of him and holding it in will kill him, but doing something about it may bring a result of justice…and also probably kill him, though he will have changed the lives of all the people in Oceania, Eastaisa and Eurasia and the generations for years to come.  He presents himself to other characters in the book with this almost shy and cooperative demeanor but we see the world through Winston’s eyes and can tell that there is a lot more to him than how he appears to the outside world. In chapter eight, Winston takes a little walk though the Prole district and we can see his amusement and curiosity with the culture and mysteriousness of this place that seems to live under the Party’s nose. He craves information about the truth and the Revolution and keeps coming back to the place where he bought his journal. I believe that that shop will be very significant to Winston and his journey to bringing justice back to the world and possibly be his place of hiding. The last few chapters of the first book mention that having sex is frowned upon and the activity should not even be used in creating other human beings because future parents could just use artsem-artificial insemination. Winston views sexual intercourse as the ultimate act of rebellion and I think that will also come into play with his plan, especially since he desires an affair and thinks might help him escape and possibly help other people escape.