1984--Part III - Chapters 1-6 (end)
As 1984 winds to a close, the reader sees an end to Winston and Julia's dreams of creating a more humane and livable society. Instead, Winston finds himself captured by the Thought Police, and reeducated in a prison. The metaphor of the prison structures the entire last half of the book. In this section, Winston is in a prison in a society that is itself like a monitoring prison. Winston finds himself trapped in a cell, with every move and breath carefully monitored by the authorities. The level of surveillance is total, as it can be seen if he is putting his hands in his pockets, concealing his body and thus possibly his thoughts, even in a gesture of defiance. But this is little different than Winston's monitored calisthenics at the beginning of the book.The purpose of prison is reeducation, but the citizens have already been living in a state of total and constant reeducation. The guilt instilled in citizens is total, as seen in Parsons' reaction to his own supposed crime. When Winston asks if he is guilty, the cowering man replies: "'Of course I'm guilty!' cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen.'You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man,
do you?' His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. Do you know what they heard me saying?'" (Part 3, Chapter 1, URL: http://www. What is sane is insane, in this new world. When O'Brien holds up two fingers he says that 2+2 do not always make 4, not if the government says so: "'Sometimes, Winston. Winston is forced to sacrifice his own individuality to be spared, he hopes, the rats, and he does so by saying: "'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. O'Brien refuses to believe Winston when Winston tries to pretend to parrot the rhetoric of the party, instead he sends him to Room 101, so that Winston's entire consciousness will become completely convinced of the need to submit to the power of the Party. Winston is terrorized in Room 101, by rats, a fear that he learned during his pre-Party childhood. Not only does it watch Winston constantly, but Winston's sub-consciousness and consciousness have become imprisoned by fear and love of Big Brother, just as surely as if he was being watched in his thoughts every moment of his life. The rats are creatures of the prison, scavengers who live off of other people like the Party lives off society. com/orwell/1984/18/) Submission is so total that even the subconscious is monitored in this prison-like society, and because of the constant sense of being watched, everyone lives in a total state of fear, brought about by their sense of powerlessness.
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