knows
from the start that there is something drastically unjust about Oceania and the way it is
governed. (Even this comes across as an .) He hates the Party and eventually carries out a huge
act of rebellion in his affair with . His problem, however, is that he has no definite standard
by which to judge the situation objectively. His memory of the pre-dystopia world is vague and
chaotic, for he was only a child at the time. The Party has systematically wiped out records of
the previous era (and does so with the present as well) and Winston has no real way of knowing
for certain that life was ever any better than it currently is, or that mankind was ever
governed in a way different from the totalitarian regime of the present.
His
decision to keep a diary is an attempt to objectify what he knows only intuitively about the
wrongness of how the world is being governed and its people controlled and oppressed as they
are. At some point he realizes that much of what...
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