Part 3 Chapter 2 Summary

Here's chapter 2 of part 3. And here's the notes:
Chapter 2
This chapter deals with Winston’s initial torture. He goes through two phases. The first phase involves constant beating. It would be kicking, or clubbing, or punching, but it would go on for either hours or minutes with breaks that always changed. This was so Winston would confess to things, even stuff he didn’t do. Sometimes he would hold out, sometimes he would confess even before they started. Sometimes they would feed him food, or send him a barber. Then, his interrogation switched to Party intellectuals, men who made him sit for hours answering questions. They’d shine lights on him, slap him, make him stand on one leg, not let him use the bathroom, and question him and switch his answers around for hours on end, until he confessed to even more crimes. Spying, passing out pamphlets, trying to assassinate party members, a whole bunch of stuff.
Then, he is pulled into another room. He is lying on a bed tied down and O’Brien enters. He notices that O’Brien is old. O’Brien waves his hand and an immense pain fills Winston’s body. The next section involves O’Brien asking questions and zapping Winston every time he gives an answer that isn’t genuine. These questions are about the war always being with Eastasia, whether or not Winston ever saw the photograph of the three party members. O’Brien even shows Winston the photo, burns it, and says it never existed showing doublethink.
The Party has been watching Winston’s every move for 7 years. O’Brien explains that the past only exists in records, and if the party controls the records, they control the past. O’Brien demonstrates how the party can control memory by making Winston say that 2+2=5. Winston doesn’t, so O’Brien holds up 4 fingers. Winston says 4. So O’Brien uses the machine to induce so much pain that Winston’s eyesight and reality start to fade, and he no longer remembers how many fingers he sees.
Winston has mixed emotions with O’Brien, how he feels he can talk to him, the O’Brien understands. This is the typical torture scenario where the torturer is the bringer of both pain and mercy, becoming almost like a father. O’Brien then talks about the past, how in the middle ages, the Inquisition failed because they let people keep their beliefs and become martyrs, creating more believers. Then, in the modern era, the Nazis and Soviets failed because even though the accused would say they no longer believed, in their hearts they did. O’Brien says that the party means to change the way people think and feel. He says that Winston will be forgotten. No records of his existence in the past, or the future, and no one will ever know his name outside his own life.
Winston asks then why torture, O’Brien responds, because Winston must be one of them before he is purged. Winston is then hooked up to another machine, there is a bright flash and Winston feels as though some of his memory is missing. O’Brien begins questioning again, and Winston is unable to remember and even believes O’Brien on some points.
Finally, Winston asks O’Brien about Julia. O’Brien says Julia betrayed him right away. He asks if Big Brother exists, and O’Brien says of course, and that he’ll never die, because the Party says so. He then asks what’s in Room 101. O’Brien says, you already know. O’Brien raises his finger and the doctor injects Winston and he falls asleep.

Видео Part 3 Chapter 2 Summary канала Brandon Ecks