What are some of the conflicts that Winston Smith faces in Orwell's 1984? What is the lesson learned from all of what Winston went through?

's most
intense conflict is with himself. He desperately wants to rebel, but at the same time he's
fearful, and with good reason. He starts a journal, a serious criminal offense in this
totalitarian state, but as soon as he begins to write down seditious thoughts, he starts to
panic, wanting to tear out the spoiled pages. Winston's internal conflict also relates to his
main external conflictthat with Big Brother and the world that he represents. Winston remains
defiant in his utter loathing of Big Brother, even after being brutally tortured by . It takes
the horrors of Room 101 to make him come round to the Party's way of thinking. But even then, we
can't really say that Winston has resolved the conflict; rather the resolution, such as it is,
has been brutally imposed upon him from without.

Much the same could be said
concerning Winston's relationship with. Again, he's carrying out an act of sedition here, but
this time he's less tortured about defying the Party...