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1984: Book 2, Chapter 8. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Winston and Julia go to O'Brien 's luxurious apartment, where O'Brien's servant, Martin, admits them into a room where O'Brien is dictating a message in Newspeak. To Winston's amazement, O'Brien turns off the ...
Winston insists that the spirit of Man will defeat the Party. O'Brien tells Winston that he is the last man and orders him to remove his clothes and look in the mirror. Winston does, and is horrified at his changed appearance—he is emaciated, partially bald, gray with dirt, scarred, and has lost nearly all of his teeth. O'Brien mocks him.
O'Brien says that Winston does not exist because he is "training" Winston to see and think as the Party wants him too, to, basically, merge with the Party and lose his individual identity to that collective identity. Room 101 continues to be established as something to be feared. Celona, Tina. "1984 Book 3, Chapter 2." LitCharts.
O'Brien's Party creates new truth so that new generations cannot remember the past. O'Brien gives even more reason: That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only fo r the good of ...
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- Analysis: Chapters VII–VIII
One morning, Winston wakes up crying in the room above Mr. Charrington’s antiques shop. Juliais with him and asks him what is wrong. He tells her that he has been dreaming of his mother and that until that moment, he has subconsciously believed that he murdered her. He is suddenly gripped with a sequence of memories that he had repressed. He rememb...
The two take a serious risk by traveling to O’Brien’s together. Inside his sumptuous apartment, O’Brien shocks Winston by turning off the telescreen. Believing that he is free of the Party’s observation, Winston boldly declares that he and Julia are enemies of the Party and wish to join the Brotherhood. O’Brien tells them that the Brotherhood is re...
Winston’s sudden surge of childhood memories reveals the depths to which the Party’s psychological manipulation has infiltrated: only in his subconscious is Winston still able to cling to the truth. Julia proves to be one of the few outlets (the reader never meets any of Winston’s family) for the emotionally cathartic power of this memory and is th...
Nevertheless Winston did not speak for another moment or two. A feeling of weariness had overwhelmed him. The faint, mad gleam of enthusiasm had come back into O'Brien's face. He knew in advance what O'Brien would say. That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority.
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O’Brien is a member of the Inner Party in Oceania. He’s in the Party’s upper ranks, meaning he is allowed to live a very different life from that of the normal Party members or the proles. He has far more freedom than Winston Smith does but is also an integral part of the way the Party operates. He is best remembered in the novel for ...
