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1984

1984. Part Three. Chapter 1. Winston is a prisoner in the Ministry of Love where he meets Mrs. Smith, Ampleforth, Parsons and skull-faced man while being watched by the telescreen constantly.

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1984

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  1. 1984 Part Three

  2. Chapter 1 • Winston is a prisoner in the Ministry of Love where he meets Mrs. Smith, Ampleforth, Parsons and skull-faced man while being watched by the telescreen constantly. • Room 101 seems to hold an ominous presence and terrifying threat to prisoners in the cell and being taken there. • O’Brien enters the cell and reveals to Winston, “They got me a long time ago . . . You knew this . . . Don’t deceive yourself. You did know it—you have always know it.” O’Brien is part of the Inner Party

  3. Chapter 2 • Winston is continually beaten and tortured within the room to which he is taken and confesses to crimes he hasn’t committed to end the the treatment. • O’Brien is “taking his time with” Winston because he is “worth it” and has watched him for seven years. He is going to “cure” him or “make him sane”. “We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.” • Winston contemplates O’Brien as “a friend or an enemy” or “a person who could be talked to . . .one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” • Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth. 2+2=5.

  4. Winston’s Questions • “What have you done with Julia?” • She betrayed him instantly. • “Does Big Brother exist?” • “Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party. The Party exists.” • “Does the Brotherhood exist?” • “You will never know.” • “What is in Room 101?” • “Everyone knows what is in Room 101.” You worst fear.

  5. Chapter 3 • Three stages of reintegration: • Learning • Understanding-time for this one • Acceptance • Goldstein’s book was a collaborative writing with O’Brien. “It’s all nonsense.” • Why? The party seeks power for pure power. Power is collective. Power is the power over human beings. Make them suffer. Civilization is founded upon hatred. A boot stamping on a human face—forever. • Nature and Science=outside man there is nothing. “We create human nature.” Winston is the “last man” to hold onto the “spirit of man” and he is weak physically and soon mentally. • The varicose ulcer was an inflamed mass with flakes and skin peeling off it. This symbolizes the loss of rebellion we see in Winston.

  6. Winston’s Contemplations “I have not betrayed Julia.” “How soon will they shoot me?” “It may be a long time . . . You are a difficult case. But don’t give up hope. Everything is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you?” Literally? • Despite the fact that Winston has betrayed Julia verbally under torture, he has not betrayed her emotionally at this point. He has not stopped loving her. O’Brien understands this meaning of Winston’s and appreciates his understanding of his statement. There is a mutual understanding of each other.

  7. Chapter 4 • Winston is growing stronger. He has capitulated. He cannot fight against the Party any longer. • He dreams of Julia and cries out her name, risking a setback in his imprisonment and showing reader he is not hollow, yet. • O’Brien comes in and asks, “How do you feel about Big Brother?” • Winston cannot lie to O’Brien and admits he hates Big Brother. • “You must love him.” Room 101.

  8. Chapter 5- Room 101 • In this room you are tortured by your worst fear=RATS! • A cage/mask of two rats is brought in and will “leap onto your face and bore straight into it.” • Winston is panicked and must think of some way to get out of this situation. “Do it to Julia? Do it to Julia! Not me!” This is the final step for Winston to give up any shred of humanity. He betrays Julia/love/human emotion. • The rats are not released.

  9. Chapter 6 • Winston is now back in society at the Chestnut Tree Café where he sits and drinks gin all day, waiting . . . • Julia and Winston see each other again, meet and declare their betrayal (proudly). They explain why and although they “must meet again”, they are emotionless and disconnected. When Winston returns to the café the song is playing: “Under the spreading chestnut tree/I sold you and you sold me—”. Tears well up in Winston’s eyes-emotion? • False memory of his family playing a game and laughing together. • The final, indispensible, healing change had never happened, until this moment . . .

  10. Reality or Metaphor? • “He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.” • “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” • Now that he has given himself over to the Party, he will be executed. OR • The thought of his love for Big Brother is a metaphorical bullet that destroys the living, thinking, feeling Winston. WHO HAS WON THE WAR?

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