1984 Post #3

For your final 1984 blog you need to assess the ending of the book. Has Big Brother won? Why/Why not? Propose a way that the One State can be brought down. What do you think happens to Winston Smith at the end of the novel? Support your answer with analysis of specific quotes from the text.

I think in the end of this book Big Brother wins. He keeps the society in his ideal state because he doesn't care about killing others, he cares about keeping his point. He has done that through necessary actions and his ideals are still the "law" when the book ends. The only way I can see the state being brought down is if one was able to convince the thought police and members of the party to turn on Big Brother. If you could always keep one person against the law and just keep that moving through generations. At the end of the novel Winston Smith is shot by the Thought Police and dies. I see this because it talks about how the bullet is coming towards his head as we walks down the hallway and earlier it mentions this is how they kill people.