1984. Relating facts and details written in the novel, describe Winstons character as it relates to his attitude toward the Party. What series of thoughts and events contributed to his ultimate downfall?

Winston Smith, in the novel, is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, which is the nation of Oceania. Just like everybody else, Winston is constantly being watched through telescreens, and everywhere he looks, he sees the face of the Party’s omniscient leader that they call Big Brother. From the very first pages of the book, Winston’s frustration toward the Party’s rigid control and oppression is easily noticeable. Although, it’s important to know that the simple fact of him feeling frustrated is considered as Thought Crime in the Party, because expression of individuality is completely forbidden, and hatred toward the Party is a very serious crime. Winston’s way of evacuating the bad thoughts, the criminal thoughts, is to write them in a diary that he purchased illegally. The diary is the first rebellious act that we are witnessing, and its rebelliousness grows more and more, starting from having an illegal love affair with Julia, to getting himself secretly indoctrinated into the Anti-Party Brotherhood. Despite all the effort that Winston puts into his attempt to obtain independence and freedom, the Party’s withering power wins the battle at the end. By the en d of the novel, Winston’s rebellion is completely revealed. He gets tortured physically and psychologically by O’Brien, and Winston slowly transforms into a loyal subject of Big Brother. The end of the book shows the fatality of most situations such as Winston’s, sadly enough. Furthermore, one of the reasons for Winston’s rebellion and eventually his ultimate downfall is his sense of fatalism. Winston is paranoid about the Party and he knows from the very beginning that the Party will eventually end up knowing what he did and will then be punishing him. It’s funny to think about the way Winston is willing to rebel even though he knows the end of the story already, in which he is not in a so great position. He acts like he has nothing to lose, and it shows in his actions. As soon as he writes ‟DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in his diary at the beginning of the book, Winston knows that the Thought Police will end up finding out one day. His way of thinking, by considering that he is helpless to evade his condition, is what allows him to take risks such as renting the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop or stupidly trusting O’Brien. We know that he knows deep down inside him that the risks he is taking will get him caught by the Party, because he admits it to O’Brien while in prison. Winston Smith, who is convinced that he has nothing to lose but his own mind, is pretty much convinced that he will get caught no matter what he does. It’s this fatality that he is aware of that convinces him that he must keep on rebelling, because the worst will come anyway. Lucid optimism is impossible in the world he lives. Hope is absent. Winston knows that the hope he gives himself is fake. The ultimate downfall happening at the end of the book, in some way, could have been predicted from the very beginning of the book, because the entire novel is synonym of fatality.