Winston and Julia have been captured by the Thought Police. Winston is currently in the Ministry of Love being tortured for days at a time. As it is put in the book, "There were times when he rolled about the floor, as shameless as an animal, writhing his body this way and that in an endless, hopeless effort to dodge the kicks, and simply inviting more and yet more kicks, in his ribs, in his belly, on his elbows, on his shins, in his groin, in his testicles, on the bone at the base of his spine." (240)
Quote: I chose this quote because it best illustrates the point of the torture, which is to dehumanize the victim. If you break a person down, to the point where they can only think about when the pain will stop, what they can do to escape their tormentors, then that person become malleable. Malleablilty is the whole point of the Ministry of Love; they love their people so much that they will take the time to reshape defective people into perfect Party members before executing them.
Analysis: This quote makes effective use of lists. Typically lists are pretty generic, however Orwell takes advantage of this here to create a very long, seeming never-ending torrent of very descriptive pain (writer's craft) that helps convey the breadth of the torture that Winston is enduring.
Quote: I chose this quote because it best illustrates the point of the torture, which is to dehumanize the victim. If you break a person down, to the point where they can only think about when the pain will stop, what they can do to escape their tormentors, then that person become malleable. Malleablilty is the whole point of the Ministry of Love; they love their people so much that they will take the time to reshape defective people into perfect Party members before executing them.
Analysis: This quote makes effective use of lists. Typically lists are pretty generic, however Orwell takes advantage of this here to create a very long, seeming never-ending torrent of very descriptive pain (writer's craft) that helps convey the breadth of the torture that Winston is enduring.
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