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dolsica
05-15-2007, 11:41 AM
hi all I'm a new member in this forum
I'm studying English literature in Egypt
and I'll have the final exam soon

how far Winston is an anti-hero

thank you all
The Atheist
05-18-2007, 01:02 AM
hi all I'm a new member in this forum
I'm studying English literature in Egypt
and I'll have the final exam soon

how far Winston is an anti-hero

thank you all

Well, he's the perfect anti-hero, really. The hero usually ends up winning and gets the girl. Winston ends up losing everything - his free will, his love, and ultimately, his life.

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bazarov
05-19-2007, 08:50 AM
He is not that perfect anty-hero...
Hero's acts are defined by his desires and needs, so if he fail he becomes anty-hero. Hero always have some position in society, he is important to someone and Winston is more like surplus man, nobody cares for him.

He didn't loose his life, no matter do you think on physical or psychical.
In the beginning, Winston asks himself about his concerns; illusions around him and his undefined desire to fight against it. At the end everything is cleared to him, he knows he cannot resist to Party and that he is totally helpless. Therefore, all his problems are solved. Maybe not in the way he wanted it to be, but his concerns are gone.
dolsica
05-19-2007, 04:20 PM
Well, he's the perfect anti-hero, really. The hero usually ends up winning and gets the girl. Winston ends up losing everything - his free will, his love, and ultimately, his life.

Glad to see Egypt embracing Orwell, welcome aboard!


thank you
dolsica
05-19-2007, 04:25 PM
He is not that perfect anty-hero...
Hero's acts are defined by his desires and needs, so if he fail he becomes anty-hero. Hero always have some position in society, he is important to someone and Winston is more like surplus man, nobody cares for him.

He didn't loose his life, no matter do you think on physical or psychical.
In the beginning, Winston asks himself about his concerns; illusions around him and his undefined desire to fight against it. At the end everything is cleared to him, he knows he cannot resist to Party and that he is totally helpless. Therefore, all his problems are solved. Maybe not in the way he wanted it to be, but his concerns are gone.

Bazarov

I think you are right from your own point of view
but I see that Winston's problems aren't been solved
he was fulled of the party's ideas and he loses his thoughts and feeling .. he lost his girl friend and his career

he is perfectly anti- hero