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Tuttle Ap Lit and Comp 16 August 16, 2013 Winston Bone Structure Physiology Sex: Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering with him. (5) Age: The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine, and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. Height and weight: Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meager body, with varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discolored patch over his ankle. (118) Color of eyes, hair, and skin: A forlorn, jailbirds face with a nobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a crooked nose and battered looking cheekbones above wich the eyes were ffierce and watchful. (223) He had gone partially bald. For the first moment he thought he had gone grey as well, but it was only the scalp that was grey. (223) Posture: The curvature of the spine was astonishing. The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull. (223) Appearance: The blue overalls of the party could not be a common sight in a place like this. (71) Defects: The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine, and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. (5) Heredity: Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meager body, with varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discolored patch over his ankle. (118) Sociology Class: This Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted with the general ideology of the party. (57) Winston is a member of the Outer Party which is equivalent of being a member of the middle class.

Occupation: It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the center of the hall, opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate. (12) Winston works in the Records Department changing old historical documents to serve the parties agenda Education: Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the state, may be justly likened to the hands. (172) Being a member of the Outer Party Winston had a higher education than the Proles but a lower education than that of the Inner Party. Home Life: Ive got a wife that I cant get rid of. (100) Winston was married and could not get a divorce by law. Religion: Do you believe in God, Winston? No. (222) Winston is not religious. Place in Community: This Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted with the general ideology of the party. (57) He was a member of the Outer Party

Political ambitions: DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (19) His goal is to oust the party. Amusements, Hobbies: The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. (9) Winston enjoys his diary.

Psychology Moral standards: And you consider yourself morally superior to us with our lies and our cruelty? (222) He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a childs face.( 222 ) I hate purity, I hate goodness. I dont want any virtue to exist anywhere. (104) Winstons morals are complex, he is of the highest moral standing by our standards, but at the same time he hates anything that resembles the party. Personal Ambitions: DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (19) If there was hope it lay in the proles! (181) We are the dead. (182) - Winstons goal throughout the book is for there to be a revolt in the future. Frustrations: I hate purity, I hate goodness. I dont want any virtue to exist anywhere. (104) They were like the ant which can see the small objects but not the large ones. (79)

And when memory faded and written records were falsified the claim of the party to have improved conditions of human life had to be accepted (79) Winston is frustrated with the parties influences on society. Temperament: I hate purity, I hate goodness. I dont want any virtue to exist anywhere. (104) DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (19) He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a childs face. (222) Winston is very passive aggressive when it comes to the actions of the party. Attitude toward life: I hate purity, I hate goodness. I dont want any virtue to exist anywhere. (104) DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (19) He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a childs face. (222) Winston is very passive aggressive. Complexes: Rats! (119) Of all the horrors in the world --- a rat! (120) In your case, said OBrien, the worst thing in the world happens to be rats. (233) Winston has an irrational fear of rats. Extrovert, Introvert, Ambivert: I love you (90) He had hoped to be alone for a while (90) The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. (9) Winston is hopelessly introverted even to the point where he is indecisive about his feelings toward Julia. IQ: Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the state, may be justly likened to the hands. (172) You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out. (210) There was no idea that he had ever had, or could have that OBrien had not long ago examined and rejected. His mind contained Winstons mind. (211) Winston technically should be of lower standing than the members of the Inner party but he has magically found the ability to rationally resist the governments forms of thought control.

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