When Winston is sitting in the jail cell all alone with the bare walls and the never ending darkness, i think that is sometimes how we feel in our daily lives. Like nothing can change, nothing can get better, its just the same old boring things day after day after day. In the jail, when people get dragged into room 101, and no one knows what occurs in that room, it reminds me of The Borne Identity. In The Borne Identity, the government takes criminals into a room and brainwashes them to give them a new identity. So that could maybe be what is going on in mysterious room 101.
In chapter 3, the book shows us how truly inhumane some people are in this book. Putting the idea that pain can cure a man's wrongful beliefs...what is that all about? I think the people that are involved in the party are the one's with the wrongful beliefs and need to get set straight.
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I think we all agree that the Party is what is messed up and not the people. But like the book said, it wasn't the physical pain that broke down Winston, but the constant questioning and how the interogators scrambled his thoughts. I think it would have been difficult to stay sane if someone like O'Brien was in my face, constantly informing me of my insanity. It would be confusing, and I think the book narrated the confusion well because Winston was having doubts about his own state of mind.
It is true though, that a long time ago, it was believed that pain cured an insane man. But in this case, the people whom they think are insane are actually the sane. The people who believe and love Big Brother are the ones who are insane. So what O'Brien is trying to do is to inflict pain on Winston to the degree that he finally breaks and will believe everything that he wants. Kind of messed up, right? I have never seen The Bourne Identity, but whoever thought of that movie could have possibly gotten the idea from somewhere because as we learned in "How to Read Literature Like a Professor," ideas and stories don't come from a vaccuum.
I agree with you about how the brainwashing is so inhumane and how can anyone do this. It is ridiculous. I like how you refer it to movies nowadays.
Since I have seen the Bourne Identity, you made a good connection. They wipe clean who he was and what he knew before. And yes, just like pickles said, we all know the party is messed up. But their methods of interogating is effective.
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