Winston's Struggle George Orwell creates a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has full control over the masses in the novel 1984. The protagonist, Winston, is a member of low-level party who has grown to resent the society in which he lives. Orwell portrays him as an individual who begins to lose his sanity due to the constraints of society. There are only two possible outcomes: either he is assimilated more effectively or he achieves the change he desires. Winston begins a journey towards his own self-destruction. His first act of defiance is the diary in which he writes "Down with Big Brother". But he goes further, having an affair with Julia, another member of the party, renting a room above Mr. Carrington's antique shop where Winston carries on this affair with Julia, and following O'Brien who claims to have connections with the Brotherhood, the 'anti- The party movement led my Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston and Julia are both arrested by the Thought Police when Mr. Carrington is revealed to be an undercover agent. Both eventually betray each other when O'Brien tortures them at the Ministry of Love. Orwell conveys the limitations of the individual when it comes to doing something monumental like overthrowing the established hierarchy, seen through the futility of Winston Smith's actions which end in his failure rather than the end of Big Brother. Winston's goal to free himself turns out to be hopeless when the people he trusted end up betraying him and how he was wantonly manipulated. One can sense that Winston was actually more concerned with his own sanity and physical well-being because he surrenders to Big Brother after being tortured and is content to live in the society he hated so much. Winston witnesses the weakness within the proletarian community due to their inability to understand the workings of the Party, but he himself embodies the weakness by sabotaging himself by associating with all the wrong people and simply falling into the arms of Big Brother. Orwell has created a world in which there is no use other than to assimilate into Winston's point of view, making his struggle absolutely hopeless. Orwell shows that the Party has taken rigorous measures to maintain the established status quo that suppresses most of Oceania. They shaped and constructed the story so that children grow up as servants of the party. Propaganda claims how rich and prosperous Oceania is, the news of the day, even though real conditions show that buildings are dilapidated and resources are scarce..