1984 - s 3 ch 2 & 3

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Ten torture methods later…Winston (like all the other prisoners) confesses to a long range of crimes – espionage, sabotage, etc. The confessions are a mere formality. This is so not over yet.

Winston’s spirit is broken (also other body parts) and his sole concern becomes to 1) find out what they want him to confess, and 2) confess like crazy to avoid torture.

O’Brien is still running the torture show, by the way. Turns out,

he’s been surveying Winston for the last seven years. Or so he says.

Winston is strapped onto

torture machine that is designed to stretch backbones until they break.

O’Brien controls the dial that directs the machine.

O’Brien informs Winston that his crime was refusing to accept the Party’s control. Winston even went so far as to rely on his own memory.

Winston becomes brainwashed, as tends to happen when you’re on a backbone-stretching machine

julia has betrayed winston but winston doesnt care

they convert "traitors" before they kill them so that there are no martyrs.

Winston relearns "doublethink" and eventually, "crimestop."

After weeks of torture, O’Brien tells Winston that he is about to enter the second stage of the three-stage process of "reintegration": learning, understanding, and acceptance.

the Party is indestructible because it seeks absolute power for power’s sake; the Party will succeed indefinitely because it controls the only reality that matters – the human mind; the Party shall eventually be rid of all enemies because all private loyalties will be abolished.

O’Brien likens a picture of the future to be "a boot stamping on a human face – forever." It will be a hateful world of power, manifesting itself in "inflicting pain and humiliation."

O’Brien forces Winston to look in the mirror for a picture of "humanity." Winston cries upon seeing his deterioration; he looks to be 60-years-old with the grayness, emaciation, and a not-so-straight spine. In short, he looks like a boot stamped on his face.

O’Brien humiliates Winston by ridiculing this picture of "the last man."

Winston lashes back, and O’Brien recognizes that there is one last strength: Winston has not yet betrayed Julia.

Whatever, says O’Brien. It doesn’t matter since everyone gets shot anyway. Although, better play it safe and destroy that last loyalty