After making Winston look at himself in the mirror, O'Brien asks, "Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?" What does Winston answer?

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What is the main idea of this chapter?

O'Brien can read Winston's mind. He knows that Winston has been struggling with one basic question, even before his arrest: "You could grasp the mechanics of the Society you lived in, but not its underlying motives."

What does"mechanics"mean?

Despite O'Brien's badgering, Winston hangs on to what he knows is true, refusing to believe that man is the center of the universe: "The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind —— surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false? Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy?"

What does"fallacy"mean?

In the future society O'Brien describes, "There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness."

What does"distinction"mean?

O'Brien's explanation of the Party's agenda is full of doublethink: "The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism."

What does"tolerant"mean?

Winston insists that there is something at work in the universe that will prevent the Party from achieving its goals, but O'Brien believes otherwise: "You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable."

What does"malleable"mean?

After making Winston look at himself in the mirror, O'Brien asks, "Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?" What does Winston answer?

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What is the main idea of this chapter?

Winston has no idea whether it is night or day because the lights are always left on: "He had long grown used to sleeping with a strong light on his face. It seemed to make no difference, except that one's dreams were more coherent."

What does"coherent"mean?

Winston struggles to educate himself into alignment with the "immortal collective brain" of the Party: "By what external standard could you check its judgements? Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought."

What does"statistical"mean?

Winston begins to exercise himself in crimestop by presenting himself with "…propositions —— 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' —— and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them."

What does"contradicted"mean?

After crying out Julia's name, Winston "lay back on the bed and tried to compose himself. What had he done? How many years had he added to his servitude by that moment of weakness?" What does 'servitude"mean?

Winston knows that he will be punished for bursting out with Julia's name. While he waits to hear the tramping boots coming for him, "For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself."

What does"perceived"mean?