At this point in the story Winston and Julia were reading the brotherhood book in their rented flat on a normal afternoon when they fell asleep. When they woke though, something seemed off about the time as if they had slept too long or something. All of a sudden they were talking and a voice appeared in the room saying they were dead. A look behind the picture showed a telescreen hidden there. It turns out that the lonely vintage store owner was actually a member of the thought police and before Winston and Julia could do anything they were taken in by the thought police and taken to the ministry of love. Winston was in cells for what could have been hours or days, there were no windows in the ministry. He kept running into people that he knew while in the cells though. Then oddly enough O’Brien walked in. He was taken into an interrogation room and O’Brien seemed to be in charge. Following this was days and possibly weeks of torture, confession, and emersion into the way of Big Brother. A text to text reference for this section actually might be to the book the host. In that book a ‘soul’ from another planet would overtake a human’s body. But this soul would still know the memories and some of the thoughts of the human they were taking over. When Winston begins to be interrogated and changed into a person loyal to the party, it’s as though he has two personalities. One of them is straining to stay sane and alive inside of him but the ministry of love is creating another person inside of him which eventually changed him all together. As a person to text reference this part actually scared me a lot, the fact that at any moment this society could completely change a person from the inside out was weird, but still slightly realistic.
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