1984: Post 4

Winston defies the party by saying, "I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere." Honestly though if you think about it, you'll see that the only reason Winston hates these things is because the party told him to love them. I get the feeling sometimes that Winston lets the party control him even if he is trying to defy them. In Brave New World there's a time when John talks to Mond about how he hates their society because they control people. Both John and Winston essentially have the same ideas behind these two speeches. They both hate that their society leaders are controlling the citizens of their worlds. In my opinion, I think John has more credibility than Winston. It seems as if John actually knows what he is talking about because he experienced another way of living before going to the World State. Winston has always been in Oceania and the only real connection to another way of life is his distant, distorted memories of his family before the Revolution.