ife and the after life. Instead of letting God govern his life, Winston used money and the Linden Hills idea of conformity to make all of his decisions, so he could advance in this life. This is similar to the Epicureans, who are seen in the sixth level of hell in Dante's Inferno, they are damned to hell because they were freethinkers who esteemed nothing higher than comfort in this life, and therefore denied the immortality of the soul. All Winston cared about was advancement
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