Part 3 Chapter 1

Winston is taken to a prison for common criminals and political prisoners, then to a cell in the Ministry of Truth. Unaware of how much time has passed since he was arrested, Winston is ravenous with hunger. He considers the prospects of being tortured, and considers whether O’Brien will arrange for a razor blade to reach him so that he may end his own life.

Ampleforth, the poet from Winston’s office, is shuffled into the room having been arrested for retaining the word ‘God’ in a Kipling poem. Sometime later, Ampleforth is taken by a guard to Room 101 which is both a literal room but also symbolic that a form of education is to take place; 101 is the code frequently used to denote introductory university courses.

Next, Parsons is brought in, having been denounced by his daughter, then is led away.

A man in a state of emaciation is brought in and when another prisoner kindly offers him some bread, the starving prisoner is too frightened to take it. When the time comes for the starving man to go to room 101, he begs that he and his entire family be killed instead. The man struggles and is led away with a crushed hand.
Winston considers how Julia must be suffering, before O’Brien enters the room. Winston exclaims surprise at his being arrested. O’Brien tells Winston not to deceive himself, and that he was always aware of O’Brien’s loyalty to the Party. A guard strikes Winston, blinding him with pain.

Part 3 Chapter 1 Quotes

The Brotherhood, he had said, never tried to save its members. But there was the razor blade; they would send the razor blade if they could. (Winston, on O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 1

It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O’Brien had seemed to recognize the allusion. In the Ministry of Love there were no windows. Part 3 Chapter 1

We were producing a definitive edition of the poems of Kipling. I allowed the word ‘God’ to remain at the end of a line. I could not help it!’… ‘It was impossible to change the line. The rhyme was ‘rod’… there are only twelve rhymes to ‘rod’ in the entire language? (Winston’s colleague, Ampleforth) Part 3 Chapter 1

‘It was my little daughter,’ said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. ‘She listened at the keyhole. …I don’t bear her any grudge for it. In fact I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.’ Part 3 Chapter 1

He thought: ‘If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.’ But that was merely an intellectual decision… He did not feel it. In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain. Part 3 Chapter 1

They got me a long time ago,’ said O’Brien with a mild, almost regretful irony … ‘You know this, Winston’ …’Don’t deceive yourself. You did know it – you have always known it.’ Part 3 Chapter 1

Part 3 Chapter 2

Winston is tortured over a prolonged period of time at the direction of O’Brien for refusing to accept the Party’s control over history and his memory. Gradually, the torture makes Winston believe whatever O’Brien puts to him, contrary to his and Julia’s shared belief that the Party was incapable of altering individual thought. Winston comes to love and depend on O’Brien, because although he is the source of his pain he is also able to stop it. O’Brien’s goal is not to punish Winston or extract a false confession, but to ‘cure’ him by training him to look at reality while seeing something other than that reality, but not by lying, such as looking at four fingers but believing there were four.

Winston learns that Julia has betrayed Winston and, in a ‘textbook conversion’, turned herself over to the Party. The continued torture and interrogation has Winston questioning his physical existence as O’Brien’s training gradually works on merging his individual identity with that of the collective Party. Winston is told he will never know if the Brotherhood really exists but that Winston has always known what is in room 101.

Part 3 Chapter 2 Quotes

Their real weapon was the merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour, tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that he said, convicting him at every step of lies and self-contradiction… Part 3 Chapter 2

He became simply a mouth that uttered, a hand that signed, whatever was demanded of him. Part 3 Chapter 2

He not only did not know whether ‘yes’ or ‘no’ was the answer that would save him from pain; he did not even know which answer he believed to be the true one. Part 3 Chapter 2

‘…Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.’ (O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 2

‘When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will.’ (O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 2

‘Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling… or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow.’ (O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 2

Part 3 Chapter 3

Winston’s ‘treatment’ continues. He learns the reason behind the Party motivation for power: just for the sake of it; an ironic comparison to the motivation for the bird’s and prole woman’s singing. O’Brien says the Party will go further than what the German Nazis and Communist Russians did, the Party will extend its control to external reality and objective truth by controlling human consciousness. When Winston refutes the Party’s ability to overcome the human spirit, O’Brien makes Winston look at his broken down, skeletal features in the mirror and mocks him about what remains of his so-called human spirit.

Winston learns he will be shot, but O’Brien leaves the timing ambiguous. Winston has still not betrayed Julia.

Part 3 Chapter 3 Quotes

‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. …There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation – anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. …We make the laws of Nature.’ (O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 3

‘…The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred…’ (O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 3

‘No. I believe it. I KNOW that you will fail. There is something in the universe – I don’t know, some spirit, some principle – that you will never overcome.’ (Winston to O’Brien) Part 3 Chapter 3

Part 3 Chapter 4

Winston is still being held in the Ministry of Love where the torture has eased and his physical condition has improved. He dreams of the Golden Country, Julia, his mother and even O’Brien, whom he now views as a friend, an ironic example of doublethink: his torturer has become his friend.

He learns that the Party had been monitoring him for seven years and comes to the realisation that he was foolish to oppose them. When Winston awakes from a dream, shouting out Julia’s name, he realises his training will have to start all over again. O’Brien appears and orders Winston to Room 101 where he will be made to love Big Brother.

Part 3 Chapter 4 Quotes

To die hating them, that was freedom. Part 3 Chapter 4

The enormous face … with its heavy black moustache and the eyes that followed you to and fro … Part 3 Chapter 4

‘You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.’ (O’Brien to Winston) Part 3 Chapter 4

Part 3 Chapter 5

In room 101, prisoners are made to face their greatest fear. For Winston, O’Brien has chosen a cage filled with large, hungry rats which is attached to a mask that fits over the head and when a lever is pressed, allow the rats to exit the cage and consume Winston’s face. When the rats come so close that Winston can smell them and see their yellow teeth, he finally gives up Julia, and O’Brien clicks the door shut. The Party has succeeded in severing the loyalty between Winston and Julia, effectively destroying the one thing Winston believed made him human.

Part 3 Chapter 5 Quotes

One of them was leaping up and down, the other, an old scaly grandfather of the sewers, stood up, with his pink hands against the bars, and fiercely sniffed the air. Part 3 Chapter 5

But he had suddenly understood that in the whole world there was just ONE person to whom he could transfer his punishment – ONE body that he could thrust between himself and the rats. (Winston, about Julia) Part 3 Chapter 5

Part 3 Chapter 6

Winston is drinking gin and playing chess at the café where dismissed Party members frequent, the Chestnut Tree Café. He hears an announcement about the war with Eurasia and feels a mixture of emotions but being unable to retain the thoughts for too long, soon returns to his chess problem.

Winston recalls a recent chance meeting with Julia where they had both confessed to betraying one another. It was no longer dangerous for the two to meet, in fact, Winston’s life had considerably improved in that he had a higher paying job and the Party no longer seemed to care what he did; Winston was part of the unimportant masses now. Julia and Winston repeat each other’s phrases, similar to Mr Charrington’s style of communication earlier in the story, demonstrating the extent of the pair’s indoctrination.

Winston’s still struggles with the ambiguity of his memories; he recalls a happy childhood memory with his mother and sister, then using doublethink discards it as false. He is overjoyed with the news from the telescreen announcement that Oceania has taken control of Africa and visualises himself back in the Ministry of Love; the experience of his reintegration had set him free, he now awaited the anticipated bullet to his brain. However, upon looking up at the poster of Big Brother on the wall, he realised the struggle is over and he has triumphed over himself: he loves Big Brother.

Part 3 Chapter 6 Quotes

‘You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.’
‘All you care about is yourself,’ he echoed.
‘And after that, you don’t feel the same towards the other person any longer.’
‘No,’ he said, ‘you don’t feel the same.’ (Winston and Julia) Part 3 Chapter 6

He pushed the picture out of his mind. It was a false memory. He was troubled by false memories occasionally. They did not matter so long as one knew them for what they were. (Winston) Part 3 Chapter 6

He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. Part 3 Chapter 6

…the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. Part 3 Chapter 6

Part 3: Appendix

The Appendix provides more detail about Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, which was expected to gradually replace Oldspeak, or Standard English, by 2050. The goal of Newspeak was to narrow thinking and conform all expression to the Party’s worldview by eliminating undesirable words and stripping back words to a single-use meaning.

Newspeak words formed three distinct classes. The A vocabulary comprised words ‘intended only to express simple, purposive thoughts, usually involving concrete objects or physical actions’. The B vocabulary consisted of compound words used for political purposes intended to make speech ‘ideologically neutral’ and ‘as nearly as possible independent of consciousness’. The C vocabulary consisted of scientific and technical terms, and was rarely used in everyday speech.

History had already been rewritten into Newspeak, but fragments of literature such as Shakespeare, Byron and Dickens were still left to translate. Once this process was complete, all links to the past were to be severed, and even if an Oldspeak article chanced to survive, it would be unintelligible to future generations as it could not be translated from Newspeak.

Appendix Quote

… there was no vocabulary expressing the function of Science as a habit of mind, or a method of thought, irrespective of its particular branches. There was, indeed, no word for ‘science’ … Appendix