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Defining Reality in Orwell's 1984

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ? Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank is a perfect example of a human being who believes and sticks with her own ideas, she has faith in humanity. Anne Frank is very similar to Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell’s novel 1984. Winston Smith is a man who rebels against the party because he followers his own definition of reality and humanity, then he continues to seek truth and comfort. However, this is an impossible task because the party defines humanity and reality, Winston, being an individual, is always defeated. From birth all party members are driven insane because their reality has been meticulously and methodiously dismissed through things like Doublespeak. The phrase “you do not exist” is a Reality is demolished and the party member is reduced to catatonia. Against all odds Winston was able to hold onto his reality into adulthood. Winston is the last human being on the earth, not in the literal sense, but in the spiritual. Since Winston is the last true human on the planet, ironically he will be seen as the insane on compared to the rest of the world, because the individual has little strength, and his ideas will not be taken seriously without support. When indeed quite the opposite is true, the world is insane and Winston is perfectly sane. Winston thinks and feels for him, being able to do these things make him human. Winston is “sick” with human instinct. Winston learned about emotion and love from his mother, his mother loved Winston and had sacrificed herself and her daughter so that Winston could live, “she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable” (Orwell 28). Winston wonders if anyone else feels the way that he d

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