Do you ever feel like you need to do something but you just don’t know what it is? Imagine this, but if you don 't figure out what it is, you get physically and mentally tortured. This is what happens to Winston Smith in 1984 after he has been caught going against his government 's ideas. Since Winston is tortured physically and mentally, he has no choice but to conforms to the Party’s ideals. In the final section of 1984 Winston undergoes physical changes while in the Ministry of Love. These physical changes are brought on by how the Party treats Winston. Because of “how many times he had been beaten,how long the beatings had continued… ”,Winston suffers under their fists and boots (240). He also develops a feeling of fear towards anyone
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While his physical alterations were mainly due to beatings and to torture, his changes after the Ministry are not entirely inflicted by outsiders. To cope with his new life Winston begins to drink an outrageous amount, an amount that can not be totalled by him. He spends a large percentage of his day in the Chestnut Cafe where “They knew his habits… He never even bothered to count his drinks” (288). Since Winston was beaten in the Ministry, he came out a different person. Now because of the time he spent there, he questions things less, is more complacent with following the will of the Party, and is less of a free minded individual. He used to be different from the Party masses; now he’s not an individual but a part of those masses he thought so hard to not to be a part of all his adult life. He is going through life not really living it, just being present. He is living in a daze and “it was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning… From fifteen to closing time he was a fixture in the Chestnut Tree”, he was just a walking,barely talking, gin rag (294). Winston physical changes during and after the Ministry of Love are not the only ways he is altered in the final section of …show more content…
While he is broken down by beatings in the early stages of his imprisonment , at the same time he is under intense questionnaires by Party members, “His questioners now were not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals… who worked him in relays over periods which lasted… ten or twelve hours…” (241). Since he is put under such intense pressure, he tries to please the Party by giving them whatever they want, making him seem like a sheep following a brutal shepard or a disguised wolf. If he had not been caught there would be no way he would be saying and sometimes believing the things they are having him say like when “O’Brien held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed. ‘There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?’ ‘Yes.’ And he did see them... He saw five fingers, and there was no deformity” (258). Winston has become an object the Party just uses whenever they want, when they want a confession for something he gives it, when they need a signature he gives it. Winston has been partly brainwashed, partly bullied into conforming to the Party’s beliefs, but his mentality does not stay like this for the rest of his
While his physical alterations were mainly due to beatings and to torture, his changes after the Ministry are not entirely inflicted by outsiders. To cope with his new life Winston begins to drink an outrageous amount, an amount that can not be totalled by him. He spends a large percentage of his day in the Chestnut Cafe where “They knew his habits… He never even bothered to count his drinks” (288). Since Winston was beaten in the Ministry, he came out a different person. Now because of the time he spent there, he questions things less, is more complacent with following the will of the Party, and is less of a free minded individual. He used to be different from the Party masses; now he’s not an individual but a part of those masses he thought so hard to not to be a part of all his adult life. He is going through life not really living it, just being present. He is living in a daze and “it was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning… From fifteen to closing time he was a fixture in the Chestnut Tree”, he was just a walking,barely talking, gin rag (294). Winston physical changes during and after the Ministry of Love are not the only ways he is altered in the final section of …show more content…
While he is broken down by beatings in the early stages of his imprisonment , at the same time he is under intense questionnaires by Party members, “His questioners now were not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals… who worked him in relays over periods which lasted… ten or twelve hours…” (241). Since he is put under such intense pressure, he tries to please the Party by giving them whatever they want, making him seem like a sheep following a brutal shepard or a disguised wolf. If he had not been caught there would be no way he would be saying and sometimes believing the things they are having him say like when “O’Brien held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed. ‘There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?’ ‘Yes.’ And he did see them... He saw five fingers, and there was no deformity” (258). Winston has become an object the Party just uses whenever they want, when they want a confession for something he gives it, when they need a signature he gives it. Winston has been partly brainwashed, partly bullied into conforming to the Party’s beliefs, but his mentality does not stay like this for the rest of his