erwards you feel happy and dont give a damn for anything. They cant bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If youre happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother, and the Three-Year Plans, and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot? In other words, sex allowed individuals to construct a world on their own, apart from the totalitarian control of the government. This was therefore unacceptable to the Party, because one had to be completely devoted to the Party and its cause, and any deviation from this was considered treason. Thus, the ability of individuals to momentarily disjoint themselves from the rest of society through their actions was disallowed. This further crippled the concept of the individual by barring people from taking part in unorthodox actions.The true culmination of the battle between conformity vs. individualism occurs when Winston is captured by the Thought Police. This happened at the hands of OBrien, whom Winston believed was a member of a secret underground society with the task of overthrowing the Party. For a while, he was led by OBrien with that premise, but in fact he himself was a member of the Thought Police. Thus, Winston is taken to the Ministry of Love, the section of the government which is responsible for keeping the firm order of the Party. Here, Winston is broken down through torture and brainwashing, piece by piece into a hollow person, and rebuilt into a mindless follower of Big Brother, filled with love and admiration for him. But why? Why would a government go through the incredible expenditure of energy to rehabilitate all those who had gone against their doctrines? The answer comes from OBrien; considered as a tormentor, protector, inquisitor and friend by Winston. The reason for his forced rehabilitation is revealed in this powe...
