Part 3: Chapter 3

1) According to O’Brien, what are the three stages in Winston’s re-integration?
O'Brien states the three stages of re-integrating Winston are learning, understanding, and accepting. 

2) Who wrote “the Book”?
Winston originally is told taht the book was written by Goldstein, but during his sessions with O'Brien, he is told that the book was written by a number of people, including O'Brien himself.

3) Explain what Winston means when he says (p. 275) “What can you do…against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

When Winston says this, he means that he views O'Brien as an intelligent man, but with a much different perspective than his own. Winston recognizes that they will be in constant disagreement, and that he will persist in countering O'Brien's statements with his own beliefs. 

4) O’Brien states that the Party is different from all the other oligarchies of the past. Explain what he means by this? (p.275-76)

O'Brien means that the Party is different because they are conscious that their power will be everlasting. He claims that the previous oligarchies, such as the Nazis and Russian Communists, were fighting to eventually establish a place of equality in favor of themselves. The Party is not wanting equality at all, they are simply interested in maintaining power over everything, for the good of their citizens.
 
5) O’Brien asks Winston to strip and look at himself in the mirror. Why do you think he does this? How does Winston respond?

O'Brien asks Winston to look in the mirror at his frail, contorted body, because he wants to show Winston the horror he has brought onto himself by opposing the Party. O'Brien explains that Winston has always known what will become of him if he proceeds to fight the Party, and that this is what has become of him as a result.

6) Choose one or two lines that attracted your attention.  Discuss why.

 ’Yes, I consider myself superior.’
O’Brien did not speak. Two other voices were speaking. After a moment
Winston recognized one of them as his own. It was a sound-track of the conversation
he had had with O’Brien, on the night when he had enrolled himself
in the Brotherhood. He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to
murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases,
to throw vitriol in a child’s face.

I thought this part was very cool, it was a twist where O'Brien turned Winston's own words against him, words that Winston had drawn out of him by the illusion that he was going to help in the overthrow of the Party.