He's Taken in and spit back out with a mind full of new thoughts. Winston is being brainwashed and with the final stage of acceptance getting closer, the Party's absurd ways is working. It's amazing how a mind can be fooled so easily and brainwashed into thinking a certain way.
At first, Winston thought he was smarter then Big Brother and new that deep down he still hated the party but when taken into the dreaded room 101 things change. "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 is not true. At the time when it happens you do mean it." When Winston is enmeshed in the terrible torturing of rats being inches away from eating his face, his vulnerable mind takes over. He admits to O'Brien that he truly wishes that Julia should be tortured. O'Brien is satisfied and lets Winston go. At that moment it would seems as though Winston had just said that to stop the suffering. However, the Party's intelligent techniques make it so that deep down, Winston truly meant it for Julia to suffer instead.
In reality anyone can be brainwashed with some type of fear or torture that they don't even know they are going through. With certain relationships out there, one can be brainwashed by the other partner to do whatever works best for them. You can be in a relationship that is controlling you but you might not even know it. The way people can manipulate one another can make peoples mind vulnerable and change just with a click. It can happen to anyone and sometimes you aren't stronger than you think. Its hard and in the end you can choose to change it or accept it.
Winston chooses to accept he was brainwashed and live his life by moving on, drinking his victory gin. It had taken him a while but he accepts his new way of living and loves Big Brother. Something that was so improbable had happened.
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