CHAPTER THREE 1984 by George Orwell Part Three

CHAPTER THREE 1984 by George Orwell, Part Three

CHAPTER PREVIEW v Winston’s reintegration process continues. O’Brien gives him a ton of information at the beginning, saying that the Party is indestructible, the Party will succeed indefinitely because it controls everything (basically the human mind), and the Party will be rid of all enemies because anything similar to what Winston has done will be abolished. O’Brien views the future to be a hateful and humiliating world. O’Brien makes Winston look in the mirror to search for a picture of “humanity. ”

CHAPTER PREVIEW CONT’D… v Winston freaks out over how much he’s aged and how creepily crooked his spine is. Winston lashes Back at O’Brien when he refers to his image as “the last man, ” and that’s when O’Brien realizes that Winston has yet to betray Julia. Regardless, it doesn’t matter because everyone gets shot in the end, but ye figures he might as well play it safe and destroy the last loyalty that Winston has held onto.

PLACES v Miniluv

FACES v O’Brien v Winston’s disheveled and starved appearance

ITEMS/IDEAS TO KNOW v Power • What youdo to get and to preserve it v Individual/group identity v Hatred as a foundation for society v Death and imortality

QUOTES v “There are three stages in your reintegration…there is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance. ” v The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake…only power, pure power. ” v “The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual. ” v “Our [civilization] is founded upon hatred. ”

QUOTES CONT’D… v “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. ” v “We control life, Winston, at all its levels…we create human nature. ” v “You are the last man…You are the guardian of the human spirit. ” v “In the end we shall shoot you. ”

CHAPTER FOUR 1984 by George Orwell, Part Three

CHAPTER PREVIEW v Winston first decides that he wants to learn to be stupid and follow the Party. His torture, after however long, subsides a bit and he gets fatter an stronger. One night, he screams out Julia’s name while dreaming, and while the guards are coming for him, he realizes that his real goal is to die hating the party. When he stumbles upon this realization, he tells O’Brien that he hates Big Brother, and O’Brien says that it’s time to take Winston to Room 101, because not only does he need to learn obeidnece, he has to love Big Brother.

PLACES v Winston’s room in Miniluv since the torture rooms

FACES v Winston v Julia (dream) v O’Brien

ITEMS/IDEAS TO KNOW v Re-education v Holding a desire to hate Big Brother until the final moments v The power of the subconscious

QUOTES v “Hatred would fill him like an enormous roaring flame. And almost in the same instant bang! Would go the bullet, too late or too early. They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach forever. They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. To die hating them, that was freedom.

QUOTES CONT’D v “Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was satisfying. ” v “He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past had never been altered. ” v “The unspoken tradition…was that they shot you from behind, always in the back of the head. ” v “He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party. ” v “You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him; ; you must love him. ”