"' Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" (300)
Winston promised himself that he was not going to betray Julia, it was the one piece of integrity that he had left. But from reading the quote, it's pretty obvious that he gave up and lost the last promise he made to himself. But what I want to get into is the reasoning of all of this. Why did O'Brien simply stop the torture after Winston gave up his promise? Why did he not just continue with the process. Yes, he doesn't want to "destroy his enemies," but just to merely "change them" but was he simply trying to break up their relationship? We know that two minds are greater than one, despite the intelligence of the individual, if you have two minds working together, they will function better than one mind working alone. So, does any type of connection between, not only Winston and Julia, but any two people have to be broken apart? Is that how the Party controls the people? Because from O'Brien's answer to why, he includes the fact that mother and child will be separated and there will be a significant decrease of human interaction. Is that O'Brien, or the Party's intention? Less individualism = more power to the Party?
Winston promised himself that he was not going to betray Julia, it was the one piece of integrity that he had left. But from reading the quote, it's pretty obvious that he gave up and lost the last promise he made to himself. But what I want to get into is the reasoning of all of this. Why did O'Brien simply stop the torture after Winston gave up his promise? Why did he not just continue with the process. Yes, he doesn't want to "destroy his enemies," but just to merely "change them" but was he simply trying to break up their relationship? We know that two minds are greater than one, despite the intelligence of the individual, if you have two minds working together, they will function better than one mind working alone. So, does any type of connection between, not only Winston and Julia, but any two people have to be broken apart? Is that how the Party controls the people? Because from O'Brien's answer to why, he includes the fact that mother and child will be separated and there will be a significant decrease of human interaction. Is that O'Brien, or the Party's intention? Less individualism = more power to the Party?
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