and they begin a covert affair, always on the lookout for signs of Party monitoring; they rent a room above the second-hand store in the prole district where Winston bought the diary. Finally, he receives the message he has been waiting for: O'Brien wants to see him. O'Brien indoctrinates Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein's book. Winston reads the book to Julia in the room above the store, but suddenly soldiers barge in and seize them; the proprietor of the store has been a member of the Thought Police all along. Torn away from Julia and taken to a place called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that O'Brien is a Party spy as well; O'Brien spends months torturing and brainwashing Winston, finally sending him to the dreaded Room 101. Here, O'Brien straps a cage full of rats onto Winston's head and prepares to allow the rats to eat his face. Winston snaps, pleading with O'Brien to do it to Julia, not to him. His spirit broken, Winston has been fully brainwashed and is released to the outside world. He meets Julia, but no longer feels anything for her. Winston has accepted the Party entirely. He has learned to love Big Brother. This represents one of the biggest ironies in the novel. His love for Big Brother mirrors what used to be his love for Julia. And even in the end, he still has his own fatalism. ...
