1) In a single paragraph of at least 125 words, explain how Winston has changed physically and mentally since he last saw O’brien. Use evidence and some quotations to support your argument.
Since Winston and O'Brien's last session, he has grown healthier than he was when he saw himself in the mirror, a picture of skin and bones. He still couldn't stand on his own, and was still fairly frail, but he was being fed more, and was more accepting of his treatment. The Party has started to get to him, and he is beginning to doublethink himself, his existence, and his sanity. He still knows what he originally wanted, and he is still against the Party, but he is starting to comply to the Party's wishes. It came off as frightening to me, when he wrote out some of the Party slogans. It made me wonder if it was him trying to get better treatment by acting in accordance to the Party's demands, or if he was actually becoming brainwashed by them.
2) Explain what Winston means on page 294 when he says, “They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. To die hating them, that was freedom.”
By saying this, Winston is making a statement about how one can have a small victory against the Party, even in their last moment. The Party's goal of the treatments they give to prisoners is to make them love the Party until they die, so they die a slave to them, not free. Winston says that to die while hating them would be freedom, because it would mean he did not become a slave of theirs, he would die with his own thoughts and his own opinions.
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