1984 2nd Reading

Winston is having trouble buying into what Big Brother and the Party is selling because he is a samrt individual. He basis things off facts and logic. He doesn't just agree with whatever someone more intelligent than him says, he has have to support to go along with it. When Ocenia switched from being in war with Eurasia to Eastasia during Hate Week; the people just accepted this, but Winston knew better. To the Party these acts of defiance are protest, but to Winston they're ways for him to stay sane. His love relationship with Jane reassures him that he is human and that the Party doesn't control everything. America is a much more open-minded free society than Big Brother and the Party. So Winston's protests are taken as dangerous and defiance by the Party. Whereas the Anti-War protests in America are taken into account by the government.