O’Brien has sessions with Winston to try to fix him and train him to think in the ways of the Party. He explains things to Winston in a way that makes me question the way I perceived the actions of the Party. He tells Winston the Party’s government works better than those of the past, because it is fully aware that it is only functioning for the good of itself. Winston argues with him about how there is no way that the Party controls reality. O’Brien explains that reality exists inside a person’s mind, and since the Party controls the mind, they then control reality. After he begins to take to O’Brien’s “reintegration” he begins to look much healthier. One thing that surprised me was that Winston would sit in his cell and make up statements of the Party, and teach himself to believe them without analyzing. It seems to me that he is working to make his mind simpler and dumb down his thoughts.
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