1984 Book Three

Book Three: Chapter One

1. 1. Winston does not know for sure where he is. He is in a cell, which has a toilet and a narrow bench lining the walls, with no windows. He thinks that he is probably in the Ministry of Love. He has not been tortured yet, not really. He is not given any food or anything to drink. He is tired and feels sick and alone. This is all used as a tool to break him down before the real torture begins.
2. 2. Ampleforth is there because he did not change the word God in a poem, but left it there because there were no rhymes. Parsons is there because his daughter denounced him for thoughtcrime because he was yelling things against Big Brother in his sleep. O' Brien is there because he is Thought Police.
3. 3. The starving man is sitting there all pathetic, so the chinless man feels guilty. He goes over and tries to give the starving man a crust of bread, but the telescreen stops him. Later, when the starving man is being taken away, he tries to persuade them to take the chinless man instead.
4. 4. He gets hysterical at the sound of these words. He begs and pleads and throws himself on the floor. He offers to do anything, say anything, and betray anyone as long as he does not have to go to Room 101.
5. 5. O'Brien, like Charrington, is Thought Police. They were both people that Winston thought he could trust, who eventually betrayed him in the end.

Book Three: Chapter Two

1. 1. Winston is tortured, both physically and psychologically. He is starved and beaten and humiliated. He is subject to any ill treatment they throw at him.
2. 2. He is attempting to teach him to fear and revere the party. He wants Winston to know that everything the party says or does is correct, no matter what Winston thinks. He wants to teach Winston that reality only exists in the human mind.
3. 3. He thinks that the party has total power. This is because they leave no martyrs. They make people completely surrender to the way of thinking of the party before they kill them, so not even a rebellious thought exists.
4. 4. It makes him forget himself. It makes him so confused that he actually believes the lies O’Brien is feeding him, or is at least willing to.
5. 5. Winston wants to know what has been done with Julia, to which O’Brien replies that they tortured her and she gave up Winston immediately and without reserve. Winston asks many metaphysical questions about whether or not Big Brother exists, and O’Brien is very rigid on the point that BB exists and that it doesn’t matter in what sense, because BB will never die. Winston wants to know whether the Brotherhood exists, and he is informed that he will live out his entire life not knowing the answer to that question. Last, Winston wants to know what is in room 101. O’Brien tells him that he already knows, that everyone knows what is in room 101.

Book Three: Chapter Three

1. 1. There is learning, understanding, and acceptance. Winston is about to enter the understanding phase.
2. 2. O’Brien collaborated in writing the book, which means the party wrote it. Everything in there is true, but all of it is things that anyone who would read the book would already know.
3. 3. The Inner Party seeks power purely to have power, and for no other reason. The Soviet Communists and the Nazis sought power to help the people, or at least under that guise.
4. 4. If you are free, you really cannot know what is real and what is fake, because reality exists within the human mind and is created by the party. You have to merge yourself with the party because the individual always dies. Only through complete and utter submission to a larger being can you succeed.
5. 5. A person asserts their power over another person by making them suffer; through pain, humiliation, and torture.
6. 6. Oceania will differ from other utopias because it is, in fact, a dystopia. It is a world of fear, treachery, betrayal, pain, and suffering. It is a world where the government has absolute power and the individual ceases to exist. The Party will eradicate anything that is not useful to them.
7. 7. Winston thinks he is morally superior to people like O’Brien because he still has his humanity, and does not create suffering and cruelty in the world. O’Brien proves Winston wrong by playing back a tape of the night when Winston thought he was joining the Brotherhood. Here, Winston can hear himself agreeing to spread STDs, lie, steal, murder, throw vitriol in the face of children, and any other number of awful things.
8. 8. Winston’s own physical appearance breaks him down mentally. It makes him realize that the men around him (and the Party as a whole) have complete power over him and that he is utterly helpless to resist.
9. 9. Winston can say that he has not betrayed Julia.
10. 10. Winston loves O’Brien, despite the fact that he is the one orchestrating Winston’s torture. Winston feels as though O’Brien is a person who can be talked to.
11. 11. Winston wants to know how long he has until he is shot.

Book Three: Chapter Four

1. 1. Winston is now in a nicer cell. It has a pillow and mattress on the bed, and a chalkboard. He has a tin basin to wash in fairly regularly. He has gotten new clothes and is allowed to eat regularly as well. He uses his newfound time to sleep, at first. Then he starts to exercise physically until he gets stronger. Finally, he uses the chalkboard to write down things that he knows to be true: such as that freedom is slavery and 2+2=5. This shows his obedience because he is writing down principals that the Inner Party teaches. He also shows obedience by trying to train his mind to not have thoughts that go against the Party.
2. 2. In waking from a dream, Winston shouts for Julia and calls her his love. This shows that he has not completely come under the thinking of the Party and the fact that he still has a human connection with another person.
3. 3. Winston still does not like or trust Big Brother, but he is smart enough to know that he must keep this secret locked up inside himself.

Book Three: Chapter Five

1. 1. Winston is exposed to rats, his biggest fear. Rats are something that Winston just does not have the mental tools to cope with. O’Brien speaks about all the horrors of rats and threatens to strap a cage shaped like a head with two rats inside to Winston’s face. Winston is so terrified of this that he has no choice but to betray Julia, meaning that he is completely cured in the eyes of the Party.

Book Three: Chapter Six

1. 1. The setting is the Chestnut Tree Café, on a sunny day. It is the hour of fifteen and tinny music is coming from the telescreen. Winston is alone at the corner table downing Victory Gin, with only a waiter venturing over every so often to refill his cup.
2. 2. Winston is now a sinecure, which means he has an incredibly easy job. He is highly paid to work on some sub-sub-sub committee (he does not even know what it does), but really he does no work.
3. 3. He followed her for a while before they sat down together. They said plainly that they betrayed each other because they had no other choice, and that their feelings for each other are changed forever. He follows her partway to the tube station, then they never see each other again.
4. 4. He does not really think anymore. He would rather drown himself in Victory Gin than think about anything too deep. He has given himself over nearly 100% to the Party.
5. 5. Winston is giving himself up completely to the ideals of the Party, until there is not one shred of humanity, identity, or rebellion left inside of him. He is giving up.