EN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Doublethink, Thoughtcrime
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Winston sits in a bright, bare cell in which the lights are always on he has at last arrived at the place where there is no darkness. He has been transferred here from a holding cell in which a huge prole woman who shares the last name smith wonders if she is winston"s mother. In his solitary cell, winston envisions his captors beating him, and worries that sheer physical pain will force him to betray julia. Ampleforth, a poet whose crime was leaving the word god in a rudyard. He is soon dragged away to the dreaded room 101, a place of mysterious and unspeakable horror. Winston shares his cell with a variety of fellow prisoners, including his flatulent neighbor parsons, who was turned in by his own children for committing thoughtcrime. Seeing starvation, beating, and mangling, winston hopes dearly that the. Brotherhood will send him a razorblade with which he might commit suicide.
