I am trying to find a respectable literary critic who discusses the ending of 1984. Is Winston's death physical or mental? My teacher and I had a...

The
short answer is that 's death is both physical and mental: the torture he
was subjected to in the Ministry of Love has destroyed his body but also, of course, has
resulted in the intended brainwashing that has erased his will to resist the Party. But there is
much more to it. It is a living death Winston is being subjected to, which
is emblematic of whatforesees, or is warning of, for the human race as a whole. There is also a
parallel with Orwell's own situation as he was writing the novel since he was dying of
tuberculosis and knew he had only a short time to live.

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