Friday, August 6, 2010

1984 August 6, page 290 Q9

"'They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you. 'What happens to you here is forever,' O'Brien had said. That was a true word. There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out."

Winston spent time in the Ministry of Love with O’Brien during his reintegration. Here, it was almost as if they erased his thoughts, then filled him with their own. The harsh things that happened to people in the Ministry of Love could never be forgotten. The government actually attained the power to change a person. Their personalities could be altered, and thoughts could be rewritten. The Party could bring in a problem person, and make them different.

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