Winston is still prisoner at the Ministry of Love and the interrogations are making his body weaker and he even wants that they would shoot him. Nevertheless, he is gradually starting to understand the ideas of the Party and O'Brien even reveals Winston that: "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We [the Inner Party] are not intersted in the good of others; we are interested solely in power".
Finally the interrogators have tortured Winston so much that he is ready to do anything to prevent them to continue the torture and he even tells them:"Do it to Julia! Not me!". I think that those words indicates that Winston loves Big Brother more than he loves Julia and therefore O'Brien decides to let Winston go.
After Winston has been released he gets an easy job with a good salary. He spends lots of time playing chess and trinking Victory Gin at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. Winston has become a person who loves the Big Brother and believes everything the Party tells him. He still has memories but he thinks that they are not real.
The denouement of the book is different than what I expected. I hoped that the denouement would have been the collapse of the Party and a beginning of a new, democratic era in Oceania. Even though, I still think that 1984 is one of the best books I've ever read because it made me think about the significance of freedom. 1984 also made me feel happy that I don't live in a country like Oceania but I also feel sad at the same time when I think that there still are political prisioners in countries like China and North Korea.
And one more thing: Now I understand where the name of the TV program Big Brother comes from. I didn't know that the name refers to this book until I read the book.
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Just because Winston says to "Do it to Julia!" doesn't necessarily mean that he loves Big Brother more than he loves Julia. It just means that he didn't want to be tortured so he said that. By saying those words though, I think that it took Winston's love for Julia away from him. It took away his only thing that kept him like himself; his individuality.
Also I think that Winston drank the Gin so that he would believe everything about the Party and love Big Brother because I don't think that Winston wasn't completely on the side of the Party. He drank the Gin so that he wouldn't have any of the thoughts that he had before.
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