1984: Post 9

At the end of book 2 Winston is captured by Mr. Charrington and now he is in the Ministry of Love. While he is being held there, he sees O'Brien and assumes they captured him as well. As it turns out O'Brien is an operative for the party and he set Winston up. O'Brien then oversees all of Winston's tortures. Winston is beaten by guards, given shock therapy, and was thrown in a solitary cell with no food or water. Winston was put through so much pain that it got to the point where he believed O'Brien was the good guy because he made the pain stop. In reality O'Brien commanded the guards to start torturing him but when he said for the guards to stop, Winston convinced himself that O'Brien hadn't started it. In the cells he was thrown in there were four telescreens set up, one on each wall. If he tried to move around or talk to the people in the other cells the telescreens would yell at him and make him stop whatever he was doing. The final method behind changing Winston was room 101. When the door opens, Winston sees cages upon cages of rats that make him terrified. O'Brien tells him that he will be thrown in with them if he doesn't talk. At that moment Winston breaks and would much rather have Julia take the blame over him. He betrays Julia and gives into the party. At the end of the book Winston is out of the ministry and he sees Julia walking down the street. They stop and talk to each other briefly simply to tell each other that they don't love each other and that they both betrayed the other one. In the end Big Brother and the party win by changing Winston's emotions and mind into what they wanted.