"If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors"(Orwell 270).
If a lunatic is a minority of one, then Winston is a lunatic. He is the last person in Oceania who possesses human emotions and the gut feelings that separate us from animals or robots. As the Party slowly but surely diminishes emotions and makes all its members numb to feelings, Winston stood firm in his beliefs. He worked tirelessly to keep himself from becoming just another Party member, from believing in all the propaganda, from being a robot. Now, caught in the glare of the Party headlights, Winston is falling into the mold. Not only is his kind extinct, he is too.
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