1984

"'Sometimes,' she said, "they threaten you with something-something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, 'Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.' And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself." (pg.240)      When Julia and Winston are being held in their separate cells they are put to face their biggest fear. For example, O'Brien had a cage of rats to Winston, which was Winston's greatest fear. At the time Winston was told that he had to do what he is being told to, but he does not understand. Howe...

"He had the feeling that O'Brien was his protector, that the pain was something that came from outside, from some other source, and that it was O'Brien who would save him from it. 'You are a slow learner, Winston,' said O'Brien gently. 'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and tow are four.' 'Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.'" pg.207 After Winston was arrested he is taken to the Ministry of Love to be interrogated. When he is questioned about what he knows and what he remembers he lies. O'Brien, who is interrogating him, tells him to say the truth or he will be shocked so he does as told. However when O'Brien holds up four fingers and Winston keeps saying four and getting shocked. He does not understand why it's not four and O'Brien sa...

"'You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never see one another again?' 'No!' broke in Julia. It appeared to Winston that a long time passed before he answered. For a moment he seemed even to have been deprived of the power of speech. His tongue worked soundlessly, forming the opening syllables first of one word, then of the other, over and over again. Until he said it, he did not know which word he was going to say. 'No', he said finally." -pg.143 The scene is set when Julia and Winston go meet O'Brien. O'Brien then interrogates Winston and questions him to see how far they are willing to go to be part of the Brotherhood. He answers yes to everything he asks, but Julia abruptly says no when asked if they are willing to split apart and never see each other again. What I got from it at first, is that it was a very risky move as they did not know how would O'Brien would react, he could have gotten them in trouble. Fortunately, he ...

"She had had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest. 'And a good job too,' said Julia. 'Otherwise they'd have had my name out of him when he confessed.' Since then there had been various others. Life as she saw it was quite simple. You wanted a good time; 'they' meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could. She seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught." -pg.109 To me this is important because it talks about the woman that Winston may be falling in love with and on top of that not just any woman, but the one that he is breaking the rules with. This section talks about her and some of her background and kind of her backstory to everything. For example, when I read that her first affair when she was just sixteen and the guy she h...