In 1984 by George Orwell the protagonist Winston Smith, the question is smith a hero or not. Some people feel that Smith is not a hero though; The reason why is because he fell in controlled by Big Brother at the end of the book. There is many reason in the book that he is a hero. The first reason is that he bought a diary and kept writing that he wants to stop Big Brother. The second reason is that he has a love affair with Julia event though Big brother prohibited him. The last reason is it took him along time to be brainwashed, forget about Julia, and love Big Brother. There may be reasons that Smith is not a hero but there is a lot more reason that he is a hero. The book starts off with Winston Smith having so much control, but by the end he does not have any control. He did what he could do to rebel from Big Brother, which makes him a hero in this case.

In the beginning of 1984, it shows that Smith is in a dystopian society. The slogan that everybody lives by “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”. This slogan Contradictory itself which is an important tribute to the power of the society's mass campaign of psychological control. In a theory, the society maintain “War Is Peace” because they have the same enemy and it keeps everyone in Oceania together. The other saying “Freedom Is Slavery” because people doing their own thing independently will eventually fail in doom. The last thing is “Ignorance Is Strength” because if people cannot recognize these contradictions cements the power of the controlling regime. When Smith bought his diary this was his first step to go away from the motto. He went against that “War Is Peace” because his new enemy was Big Brother. He continuously wrote in his diary “down with big brother” which say whom his new enemy is. He then became a free man with his diary, which is against “Freedom Is Slavery”. He was