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Is Winston sane or Insane?


I believe Winston is sane because for one he does not agree with what is going on as in how Big Brother has completely taken over the people and their minds. Though he works in the Ministry of Truth and he is the one who rewrites the past and other documents he thinks about how things use to be before Big Brother came. This alone would get him in huge trouble and have severe consequences but Winston has these moments where he believes that how things are now are not how they were in the past. In the society in the book he is looked at as insane because that is how the tortures further in the book want him to believe that his thought process is wrong and that he should be thinking that how Big Brother wants all people to think that he should be that way also. I say Winston is sane because he has came to a sense that what is going on around him with all the false truth basically, and all the lying it just is not right and he wants a change. He expects the proles to eventually come to an understanding that they are the change that is needed to turn things around in Oceania society.