O'Brien says to Winston, "You are the last man!" Is this your view of him?

This is a great counterpoint to the traditional Judeo-Christian view of man: "Little less than the angels have you made him" (Ps 8:5).  If you want an interesting counterpoint to what Winston sees in the mirror, think of the statue of Michaelangelo's David.  This ideal of the male form is presented in this statue, man as the direct inspiration of God.  It may not be too far a stretch to see Winston as the creation of the "new" god, the state.  Instead of the idealization of the male form, complete with all the potential God had put in it and which the Renaissance and subsequent years saw it in, we have the shell of a man.  Instead of muscular, he is "skeletal."  But he is a perfect creation of the state, a being with almost no humanity, almost no will, almost no strength to resist. There are no more men; if Winston believes he is a man, he is the "last" --- and there is not much promise in him.

In the humanist tradition, the statue of David was the ideal; in 1984, skeletons are more useful.