Spooky stuff as we reach the end of page 295. For this nearing the final pages of the book and for some flipping back frantically as I did, I'd like to discuss this whole idea of Winston's time in the Ministry of Love as a "curing" process. O'Brien as we know from the reading is not there to get information out of Winston and is not there for a confession, for as we know Big Brother already is all knowing and all powerful. But instead he is there for rehabilitation so to speak, in our minds it is a backwards sort of rehabilitation in that he is being taught that black is white and 2+2=5. Now the answer to the why is already answered, unfortunately we weren't left with something so interesting to discuss but my question is will Winston be cured? Or will he still live on hating Big Brother, or will the love supersede the hate? As a discussion that came up in class earlier on; what is stronger, love or hate? Winston has a strange bond with O'Brien, do you think this will play or has played an affect on his rehabilitation process?
This is definitely a question worth a huge discussion in our class. What will happen to Winston. For those who have read ahead, the conclusion is immense. For before reading I read on to after page 295, I think that Winston won't be cured. I have the prediction that we will become what he was. His memory foggy, and his mindset to be still against the Party. I feel that it's a cycle. Because to me, ever since the beginning of the book, I was always wondering why Winston or how Winston always seemed to remember the most significant events of his younger life. I can understand that some of those memories can be hard to obtain, but it was a large of amount of things that he could not remember. His own mother, for example. I feel as if after being in Room 101, and after O'Brien is done with him, he returns back to society, assumed that he is cured, but always coming back to the reality of the Big Brother being a phony. O'Brien once said to Winston : "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," (27). My theory is that O'Brien has been trying to crack Winston for so long, and hasn't been succeeding. Therefore, he tries and tries again. Again, this is a theory. And there isn't much backbone to my theory. But I feel that there's something about at the end that is going to really shock us.
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