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Winston Smith struggled because what is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular. Orwell’s novel is wishful thinking that the second Red Scare would not escalate in the near future. He is sympathetic to freedom of choice and opinion, preaching the importance of persistence and truth. Facilitated by late-20th century technology, Big Brother wins out,and Orwell resolves the conflict by undermining his beliefs. He wrote for Winston to love Big Brother, who appears to smile in the poster contrary to the first chapter
What is most interesting is this interpretation Gökay and R.B.J. Walker make of Goldstein being like Osama bin laden:
Goldstein is the Osama Bin Laden figure in Orwell's novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)], an extremely elusive person who is never seen, never captured, but believed by the leadership of Oceania to be still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters. Since Goldstein is never captured, the battle against his crimes, treacheries, sabotages must never end
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