Imagine yourself in a room, where overhead lights constantly beat down on you, day and night. There are no windows and you have no conception of time. If you make the slightest wrong movement, the telescreen will bark orders at you, commanding you to assume a standard position. The people around you wear expressions of fear, of hatred, of denial. You are all in the room for the same reason: crime against the Party. Hunger begins to gnaw at your stomach, and your main priority becomes instinctively to stay alive as those around begin to disappear one by one to a mysterious Room 101.
These are the circumstances Winston faces in the Ministry of Love following his arrest. All hope he has for the future vanishes and any trust in O'Brien ceases, for he is the man behind the whole set up. For seven years, O'Brien had spied on Winston, waiting for the perfect time to turn him in. After doing just that, he puts Winston through intense physical beatings and mind manipulation, all in effort to conform his brain before either shooting him or setting him free.
Winston defies at first, but eventually gives up during the second and third stages of his "reintegration process," understanding and accepting. After all, isn't it much easier to just conform- to love Big Brother and accept their logic, no matter how much it goes against every thought in your mind? He now believes two and two actually make five. He believes the history the Party feeds him is true. He believes doublethink is natural. During this process, he even betrays Julia in effort to save himself in Room 101 from his worst nightmare: a cage of rats eager to eat his face off. Needless to say, the Party succeeds in the end. They corrupt his mind and take control over him the way they do with everyone else.
Big Brother forever. The End.
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