O'Brien spends the next few months torturing Winston in order to change his way of thinking - to employ the concept of doublethink, or the ability to simultaneously hold two opposing ideas in one's mind and believe in them both. The Party had been aware of Winston's "crimes" all along in fact, O'Brien has been watching Winston for the past seven years. Initially Winston believes that O'Brien has also been caught, but he soon realizes that O'Brien is there to torture him and break his spirit. Winston finds himself deep inside the Ministry of Love, a kind of prison with no windows, where he sits for days alone. The two are disturbed by a noise behind a painting in the room and discover a telescreen. Winston gets the book at a war rally and takes it to the secure room where he reads it with Julia napping by his side. O'Brien welcomes them into the Brotherhood with an array of questions and arranges for Winston to be given a copy of "the book," the underground's treasonous volume written by their leader, Emmanuel Goldstein, former ally of Big Brother turned enemy. Eventually, Winston and Julia confess to O'Brien, whom they believe to be a member of the Brotherhood (an underground organization aimed at bringing down the Party), their hatred of the Party. Winston and Julia fall in love, and, while they know that they will someday be caught, they believe that the love and loyalty they feel for each other can never be taken from them, even under the worst circumstances. Winston is able to secure a room above a shop where he and Julia can go for their romantic trysts. Alone in the countryside, Winston and Julia make love and begin their allegiance against the Party and Big Brother.
A few days later, Julia, the dark-haired girl whom Winston believes to be against him, secretly hands him a note that reads, "I love you." Winston takes pains to meet her, and when they finally do, Julia draws up a complicated plan whereby they can be alone. He also catches the eye of a dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department, whom he believes is his enemy and wants him destroyed. One day, while at the mandatory Two Minutes Hate, Winston catches the eye of an Inner Party Member, O'Brien, whom he believes to be an ally. Yet telescreens are placed everywhere - in his home, in his cubicle at work, in the cafeteria where he eats, even in the bathroom stalls. Winston is determined to remain human under inhuman circumstances.
To escape Big Brother's tyranny, at least inside his own mind, Winston begins a diary - an act punishable by death. He works in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting and distorting history. Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party.
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