1984

In George Orwell's 1984 there is a lot of stress on Winston and him worrying about committing a thought crime and becoming vaporized. I believe Winston was one of those men like Syme who did know too much eventhough he didnt think that he did and he thought that he was very discreet about his hate for Big Brother. In that sequence when Winston is talking to Syme at the lunch table, the whole time Winston is thinking to himself that this man will die because he will eventually become to smart and powerful and know everything there is to know about newspeak. I believe that Winston in a lot of ways was like Syme and the rest of the people who knew too much and committed thought crimes. Winston knew that Syme knew too much, because Winston was constantly thinking of ways to outsmart Big Brother and somehow conspire against the Government. His hate for Big Brother was later found out by O'Brien which eventually did him in. Winston I believe thought he was smarter than he really was and that led to Julia his "lover" being caught also. Now Julia in my opinion was the more secretive one and was smarter than she led on. We seen her as a woman who only wanted to defy the sexual rules and seemed almost ignorant to everything that was going on around her. She would of never been caught if she hadn't come in contact with Winston. There relationship seemed forced and Winston at times despised Julia and everything she stood for even said he would sacrifice her to the rats. But in the passages before he professes his love to her. There relationship was more sexual than anything and Winston loved her because she was the only one that showed interest in him and was the only person that he really had in his life. It is no wonder that he loved her and hated her at the same time because she is the only one that he showed emotion too. In the end Winston says that he loved Big Brother and gave up all that Julia taught him too believe. Big Brother is bigger than any thing in this book and Winston was no match to take down this dictatorship, the government left the people no choice but to love Big Brother or they would eventually find out and be killed like Winston.