Ch4

• 3.4

  Winston is being treated a lot better: getting fed, bathed and his ulcer treated. His mind is beginning to change towards the Party’s ideals, however two things remain - his loyalty to Julia and his hatred of Big Brother.
• He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed.
• He began to grow actually proud of his body, and to cherish an intermittent belief that his face was also growing back to normal.
• He knew now that for seven years the Thought Police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass.
• He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken?
• He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
• He remembered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of self-deception.
• All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
• The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
• Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
• they shot you from behind; always in the back of the head, without warning, as you walked down a corridor from cell to cell.
• He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party.
• From now onwards he must only think right; he must feel right, dream right.
• To die hating them, that was freedom.
• ‘You are improving. Intellectually there is very little wrong with you. It is only emotionally that you have failed to make progress.’