"I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones"(Orwell 125).
If Big Brother paints the picture that the Party is good, and always right, then he also says rebellion is bad. Through restriction of thought and action, people are slowly oppressed into the oblivion of following their set path. This path, like the Party, is good. It must be so, since there is no other way. In this passage that Winston stated in a fit of passion and strength, his true raw feelings of hatred for all things Party related and therefore "good" shine through. Any action, major, insignificant, short lived, long lasting, no matter, it brings a sense of victory to Winston. Beating the Party is the only reason to keep going on with the daily drudgery. Wherever Winston can find even the smallest sliver of hope that there are others who feel similarly, he is happy and reassured about his life. Finding a friend in Julia allows him to see that there are others. Purity, goodness, and virtue, will most likely soon just become status quo as people lose the ability to function on their own. Soon after that, they will be eliminated by Newspeak.
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