day to watch the "Two Minutes of Hate". Another depressing factor is that people can not love, and sex is not to be used for pleasure. Throughout the book, Orwell explains that there is not much food, and when there is, it is usually disgusting. In the same cafeteria scene, Winston's neighbor Parsons is collecting money for Hate Week what he can not wait to start decorating for. Getting excited about a holiday called Hate Week is depressing, and wrong. When Winston meets Julia, the reader is almost sure that this is a light in the story, but this meeting of the two star crossed lover's ends in tragedy. They only can see each other in secret, and eventually a hidden telescreen catches them. Also at the same time, they meet O'Brian. Winston is sure O'Brian is a good friend and thinks O'Brian feels the same way he does about the Big Brother as he does. But of course, keeping with the mood of despair this ends of being false, and O'Brian is part of the Inner party and both Winston and Julia are arrested. They are not just simply carried away, Winston is kicked and Julia is beaten and her face already bruised and askew. Winston is taken to a cell, which is monitored by four telescreens that scream at him if he even moves the slightest bit. His stomach is empty and he is starving. Soon Parsons is thrown into the cell. He has been arrested for a Thoughtcrime, and was turned in by his daughter. Parsons sits down on the toilet and and leaves behind a disgusting stench. In this scene Orwell goes beyond the mood of despair into gross physical description to make the reader sympathize with Winston. Some of these detailed descriptions include starving men, men being hit, hurling, and men having their fingers broken while being dragged off to room 101. To save himself from bearing more beatings, Winston confesses to crimes he never committed. O'Brian continues to torture Winston until he admits that two and two make five. Finally after all the beatin...
