From Orwell's 1984, how does Winston Smith clearly not portray the qualities of a heroic character? What are some quotes that could be used to prove...

One of the pointscontinually makes is that any kind of decent life, let alone any
grandeur or magnificence, is impossible under the rule of the Party.and 's affair shows that
romantic love is impossible. The odious children of the Parsons family demonstrate that domestic
life is impossible. Ampleforth makes it clear that poetry is impossible. Heroism is just as
impossible as anything else of value. This is at least partly because of the universal worship
of strength and power. Orwell was constantly exploring this power-worship as a feature of
modernity and wrote in his essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" that to bring Jack the
Giant-killer up to date, one would have to rename him Jack the Dwarf-killer. The idol of the
Party is Big Brother, who crushes opponents with superior force. No one regards it as noble or
creditable to stand up to such force. It is a world without heroes.

Winston
is an unlikely candidate for heroism in any case. He is easily broken by torture.
As...