It turns out O’Brien was not part of the rebellion. He just wanted to catch Winston. After torturing Winston at the ministry of love in a plethora of different manners for an unknown amount of time, O’Brien finally tells Winston what the government really wants. What they want is to have total power of the minds of people like Winston. They want people like Winston to say “2+2=5” and really truthfully believe it, rather than saying it just to avoid a beating. For the party, it’s purely an exercise in power. They are not trying to control his mind for some other purpose, they just want to exercise total power over people minds. When they bring Winston to room 101 and threaten him with face eating rats, he tells them to make Julia do it instead of him. That’s when the party knew that they had taken his last shred of integrity. This is a significant point because it shows how powerful the government is and what they are truly capable of. Winston didn’t stand a chance.
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