Pages 225-260

The beginning of this section Winston is in the Ministry of Love and he makes the statement, "He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain." From what is giving to us as the reader about the Ministry of Love is that it is a dark place from the torture and all of that it is pretty much a prison. In the story there is the statement that it is never dark, the very bright lights in the rooms are why this is i think. It is ironic about how it is the place that is never dark and all of this torture and death is going on inside.

A woman enters Winstons cell and she is kicking and thrashing, but when she gets put and she settles down a little bit she asks Winston what his nam is and he says Smith and the woman states that her name is Smith also and that she could be Winstons mother. Winston thinks that it is possible but right aways throws the thought away. I think he doesnt try to find out is the woman is his mother because what he has already been through and that everyone in this place, The Ministry of Love, is probally going to die that he really doesnt want to know if she is his mother or not.

O' Brien finally walks into the room and Winston cant help but say, "They've got you too." at this remark O' Brien states, "They got me along time ago." We all knew that O' Brien was a bad guy and Winston knows that he knew it too but why does he keep on going with O' Brien then if he had known what was going to happen. I think the answer to my own question is simply that he liked the feeling of being able to do as he pleased. He wasnt being controled by anyone (he thought) and he liked the feedom.

Finally, Winston is but through torture and the Ministy of Love does this to get the prisoners to their weakest point of survival, where the prisoners finially look at themselves at what they really are they havnt seen their physical appearence and the party shows them what they would become without them. At this i think that the party siezes the chance to manipulate the prisoner into becomeing a better party member and it seems that from what O' Brien says about them getting him a long time ago, that maybe they are training winston into becomeing part of big brother himself as an inner party member.