Winston is still thinking in the majority of Book 3. He
has the ability to wonder, to feel pain, to think about pain, and to question. Winston
is sane according to our understanding of sanity. O'Brien intends to make Winston sane
according to Party standards, which means that Winston will believe what he is told,
even if his eyes tell him differently. They are trying to torture the thought out of him
and Winston just won't break.
O'Brien
says:
Shall I
tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you
understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands
uncured? We are not interested in the stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not
interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy
our enemies; we change
them.
O'Brien was
furious in this moment in Book 3, chapter 2. Winston would not have the concept of truth
changed in him at this point. Here is how the Party finds that Winston has failed to
make progress.
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