1984 Part Two Ch. 10 & Part Three Ch. 1

"But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it" (238).

Winston promised Julia he would never betray her and stop loving her, but the fact of the matter is he really does not seem to care very much for her. He says he loves her, but he does not feel the love for her. The love he spoke of before seemed to dissappear once he was placed into the hands of the Thought Police. Like Winston, none of the citizens in Oceania have feelings. The skull-faced man in Winston's cell tried to get the chinless man in trouble with the guards just beacuse he did not want to go to Room 101. The skull- faced man did not care about the chinless man even though the chinless man got punched in the face for kindly offering a piece of bread to him. The skull- faced man even told the guard he would rather watch his wife and little children's throats get cut than go to Room 101. Everybody only worries about themselves. Self-interest always comes first, but it is really shown in this book. The Party strongly enforces poeple to not love or show any emotion towards a person. Even little children are handing their parents into the Thought Police. This is only going to cause people to betray one another more and more, but due to the fact nobody cares about each other, it clearly won't matter until it really starts to affect more than one person at a time. The more people that realize they have been hurt, the harder it will be for the Party to control its people.

Sanctimonious (233): adj. making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety.

Sententiously (233): adv. self-righteous.