Journal #3 1984

"What are your true feelings toward Big Brother?"
"I hate him,"
"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."
He released Winston with a little push toward the guards.
"Room 101," He said. (Orwell 282).

This part of the book O'Brien is forcing Winston to love Big Brother, the leader of this government. This quote from the book at the entire section connects greatly to the setting, language, and to cultural connections.

Setting: The part of the book where all this interrogation is taking place is in the Ministry of Love. Love would not be the best name for this building but it is what it is because it is a place of exact opposite. O'Brien wants Winston to love Big Brother and he will do whatever he needs to, to force Winston to be brain wasted. For the most part Winston has held out and kept to his beliefs and not giving in to O'Brien's tactics. The setting of this part of the story is very interesting. When we think of love, the first things that come to our minds is peace and living life to the fullest. One thing the Ministry of life does is cut off all these things and sticks you inside a building with no windows and tortures you till they make you say things that are in line with the party.

The language in this part of the book is that of an interrogation. For the most part O'Brien is calm and is driving the ideas of the part down Winston's throat till Winston is forced to follow the party rules. The language of the book has change from previous sections of the story. At first the books language is that of a thinker that is describing the situation he is living in and pointing out things that were not working. Then as we get towards the middle of the book it becomes more of a secret game of hid and seek where to party members are getting together to think and act out against the part without getting caught. That part of the book the language changes greatly because they are trying to sneak around and lot of the things they are doing gets Winston thinking against the party, where as before all he was trying to do was to keep to himself and make sure no one knew his real beliefs.

The cultural connections in this part of the book are connected to war time in modern times. Many countries during World War 2 and The Cold War, used interrogation tactics to get information out of there enemies to know more about them and what they were planning. But in 1984 it is the exact opposite, O'Brien is trying to install the ideas of the part into Winston rather then getting information out of him. The book connects a lot to what was going on during WW2, where there where countries that controlled every aspect of its citizens lives but In the book 1984 they took it to the next level and controlled everything that thought and edited there language to force them not to have the ability to talk or act out against there government.

A new motif appears in the last part of the book and more so towards the end of it. That Winston is more willing to take risks to get what he wants. When he rented the apartment he was talking a huge risk as a party member but he was willing to do so to be with another person that shared the same beliefs as him. He wanted to take the next step in his crime and go further then he had ever been.