1984 Post Three

That Big Brother wins is undebatable. Without Winston to fight, Big Brother is left unhindered in it's/his absolute control. To me, Oceania is undefeatable except by the most extreme of means - a population-wide realization of the dictatorship they live under. Without such an occurrence, the society is stable and controlling enough to last for millenia. After the book ends, I imagine Winston to be subject to the same fate as all who came before. He will one day disappear, killed someway by his government. He is too dangerous, even in his "neutralized" state, for the government to not do so. Winston knows more than almost anyone in the nation about the nature of his government. His job and his experiences in the Ministry of Love make him privy to the horrendous and compromising practices of the One State. In the interests of totalitarianism, Winston would have to die.