Introduction

The last part of the book is the conclusion of it. The third part is subdivided in three phases: learning, understanding and agreeing. In fact Winston represents in this case the dissident that must be re-educated in accord with the ideas of the Ingsoc. O’Brien is not the friend that Winston imagines but becomes an executor, the instructor of Winston. If the first and second phase is carried out by using the body torture, the last phase represents the conclusion and the “Being” is destroyed. The Humanity is annulled.

 1984 - Part 3, Chapter 4

Characters

Winston, O’Brien 

Settings

Ministry of Love

Summary

The chapter starts with Winston that is in his room. The tortures are finished and he can retrieve his forces. Sometimes the Party gives him an object like a small blackboard where he writes some random sentences. He is subject to the party. The physics laws do not exist. He accepts everything the party says. His mind is shaped. But in his heart there is the feeling towards Julia. The party can’t erase his feelings. He does not love Big Brother. When O'Brien asks Winston about his feelings towards him and if he loves the Big Brother hee does not have the force to say yes. He knows that he must say the truth. Winston hates the Big Brother.

Quotations

   FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

   TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE

   GOD IS POWER

These are the first things that Winston writes on the board. His mind is confused, but Winston is not completely re-educated. He does not love the Big Brother. He detests Him.

   …what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?

   I hate him.”

Winston hates the Big Brother. He does not accept him. He loves Julia. He thinks that they can’t change his feelings. But in the Room 101 all is possible.

1984 - Part 3, Chapter 5

Characters

Winston, O’Brien 

Settings

Ministry of Love

Summary

When O'Brien says "Room 101", Winston is brought there. Winston wants to know what is in the Room 101. O'Brien answers him that there is the worst thing in the world. It changes from man to man. In Winston's case the rats are the things that he fears most. Winston is shocked. He asks O’Brien what he is doing but O’Brien does not say anything and applies the mask on Winston’s face. In the mask there are the rats and two protections that divide the animals from Winston. When O'Brien opens the first protection he shouts that they are doing this to Julia. Winston loses his senses when he hears the clack of the mask’s protection.

Quotations

What is there in the room 101?

   The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.”

O’Brein tells Winston. The Room 101 is a place where the fear comes true. Anybody can control it. Winston knows that. But what does O’Brien want? He wants to annul Winston in his soul, in his feelings. They can enter him. O’Brien uses a particular mask where there is the terror of Winston: Rats. Precisely two rats.

   ‘O’Brien!’ said Winston, making an effort to control his voice. ‘You know this is not necessary. What is it that you want me to do?’

Winston has the answer. O’Brien wants Winston to betray Julia. And when he opens the first protection in the mask between Winston and the rats Winston says:

   Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her.”

It is the end. He betrays Julia. The Party can all. The Humanity is definitively destroyed. Winston is annulled.

1984 - Part 3, Chapter 6

Characters

Winston, O’Brien 

Settings

Chestnut Tree 

Short Summary

In the Chestnut Tree Winston waits for Julia. The telescreen announces some news about the war. Winston has a violent emotion: in fact for the first time Oceania can lose some territories. While he is writing "2+2=5" on the table of bar the he thinks that they can do all. They can control the past and the future, control the people. He had seen Julia in a garden and he was waiting in the bar. When Julia arrives Winston is astonished. The two speak about the war but afterwards they say what happend in the time of the prison. The conclusion is that Julia has betrayed Winston and Winston has betrayed Julia. When Julia goes out she invites Winston to see her again. The chapter and the book close with Winston that sees a Poster of Big Brother and cries. Now He loves the Big Brother. 

Quotations

   2+2=5”

 This sentences is fundamental to understand the book. In some particular editions of ”1984” printed about 1954 to 1987 the expression is “2+2=” whit an unknown result. This makes us think that Winston is not submissive to the party and Big  Brother. Some critics say that it was a mistake and after that the copies of the book were printed with the correct form (this information is in a note of the book).

   ‘They can’t get inside you,’ she had said. But they could get inside you. ‘What happens to you here is FOR EVER,’ O’Brien had said.”

    All you care about is yourself”

In Fact, like Winston, also Julia may have gone into the Room 101. Winston appears changed.

   And after that, you don’t feel the same towards the other person any longer

    We must meet again

    Yes,” she said, “we must meet again.

Winston is astonished and there is a sort of contradiction when he writes 2+2=5. Has the party really changed the feeling of Winston towards Julia? But the reality is harder for Winston. He is enthusiast when the news from the telescreen announce the war was coming to an end. Suddenly he is in the ministry of Love.

   The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain

The awaited death arrives when he understands the hidden smile of Big Brother.

   He loved Big Brother

He knows now that it has been useless to resist the party and Big Brother The party has changed him.

Personal Comments

In this three chapters there is a clear picture of what represents a dictatorship. In fact it is clear the manipulation used by the party to have the control. Not only the control of the time - past, present, and future. The control is extended to every  single person. The feelings can be changed according to the idea of the party. It is impossible to imagine that, but in this dictatorship it is possible. Control is at the basis of every tyranny. The Party of Orwell is a perfect example of Totalitarianism that has all the powers.  People that do not follow the party’s line are re-educated and this leads to death. The rebels are suppressed by the party but by their own hands because in the end they want this. By means of this control the party goes on and the enemies vanish. All is false, like the war, that in the end of chapter 7 first is lost and then is won. The people must not think and remember. Winston thinks and remembers what has happened. The re-education is carried out by using physical and psychical torture and the man must accept the idea of Ingsoc. All is dominated in an atmosphere of  powerlessness and concernment. The hope is killed when Winston, in the end of the book, sees the Big Brother and he loves Him. And the question that in the end we ask is: “Where is the convenience in fighting against the party? ”

By Pietro