Week 8-1984

Winston's straps kept getting looser on the bed. I think this is because he's already past stage 1 and they know he's starting to get dumber and his mind is being taken over. O'Brien helped write the "Goldstein book". The description of the book is true but the program it sets forth is nonsense. Winston is going through great grief and despair, we can see this from when he thinks to himself, "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives you arguments a fair hearing and simply persists in his lunacy?" O'Brien says the Party likes power for itself, they don't care about anyone else, which is ironic because O'Brien said they were trying to "cure" the peoples thoughts to make them sane.
O'Brien always seems to know what Winston is thinking, how? O'Brien states "We make the laws of nature." This is because they could say anything and the paroles have to believe it. He says Oceania is the world...I can't believe all these absurd lies, one even stated "the earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness." O'Brien is forcing doublethink on Winston every second.
O'Brien states "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." which is so wrong! The government is also making it so in the future there will be no friends and no wives. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. This torture and government power will never end. Winston's "crumbling" body resembles the paroles and society in general.
Winston then said that the only thing the Party hasn't done to him was he didn't betray Julia. Even though he told them all her faults, he never stopped loving her. O'Brien tells Winston he's a difficult case....why not just shoot him, is it because he wants him to suffer?
Now they are treating him nicer...why? Also, he is now satisfied in there...and dreams of happy things with his other, Julia, and O'Brien...why would O'Brien be in his "happy" dreams?
Winston now accepts everything about the Party. He thinks to himself "It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination," this illustrates he is brainwashed. The Party is making him healthy and now he "thinks" like the Party, but even though they are saving his body, they killed his soul.
Winston then said he hated Big Brother so they took him to room 101 and he is now strapped in a chair. Room 101 consists of the worst thing in the world, and for Winston that happened to be rats....Who watches all these people so closely to know what the worst thing in the world would be for them? Before O'Brien let the rats go on Winston, Winston told him to "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!" which is sad because they have now stripped him of his feelings for her. He was going to release the rats until he said that and O'Brien knows he got to his feelings, so he didn't.
He says "white always mates" that must mean something, but I don't know what. He was released now, but I thought they killed everyone who went to jail, but they did pretty much kill them because they lost their own soul. He can't seem to stay on one thought in his mind for more than 2 minutes it seems. Therefore, it is hard for me to keep up with his racing mind. Why weren't Winston and Julia scared to be by each other? Winston now relies on gin to get him through the day so he doesn't slip into unwanted thoughts. He is on a committee that really has no idea what its doing because they cant keep a thought going for too long. He then had a childhood memory, which shows he does remember but then he told himself that the memory wasn't real. The Party even got him to think it was a struggle to "cure" him because the book stated, "He had won the victory over himself." He is now another toy for the Party to collect, which shows how over powering the Party or any government in general can be.