So chapter 3 starts off with Winston in the cell alone, remembering when he was in an ordinary jail cell and the people that came and went. He also was thinking of O'Brien and thinking that he should know that he is was caught and he was hoping he would be sending someone with a razor so Winston could kill himself because they do not break out their people if they get caught. Winston has too much faith in O'Brien and doesn't even realize he is the one who trapped him and got him in this situation, I think Winston has lost all sense of who he should and shouldn't trust because he wants to believe there are others like him and Julia and he wants to trust anyone who seems to possibly be that way. But what confuses me is that at the beginning of the book he wasn't trustworthy with anyone not even with Julia when they first met. I wonder if his instincts of not trusting people changed when he met Julia???
Ampleforth comes into his cell and he finally has someone he hopes to talk to, but to do this they need to be quiet and secretive so the telescreen doesn't hear them because it'll yell and they'll get into trouble. So Winston makes an effort to get Ampleforths attention and they talk and Winston realizes he is not the one bringing the razor. Winston is way too naive and it's slightly annoying because I just want to yell at him or something.
So one of the prisoners who arrives is Parsons, his landlord. This is very surprising because Parsons is all for the Party and it was thought that if anybody were to go to jail for thought crime it would definately not be Parsons and yet here he is. When Winston asks him if he really did have thought crime Parsons answers of course he did and yet he did it while sleeping and in a way I don't actually think he was muttering "Down with Big Brother." Unless he read it from Winstons diary I don't believe he would be one to do that not even in his sleep. Maybe this is some way to get information from Winston you know bring in his friends or people he knows to secretly get information from him.
Soon Winston gets a visit from O'Brien and he finally understands that this was all a set up. O'Brien is so confusing because what is the point in going back to talk to Winston? It's done and over with just leave it be. O'Brien questions Winston but it is really not for the answers but more for getting to the point of taking those thoughts from him and seeing wheter or not he will be let out into the world or be shot and killed. Soon Winston is not knowing what he is thinking and is pretty much thinking what they are thinking and this is the scariest part of the whole story. Winston has lost everything that he has worked for remembering how life was and is now thinking like them and that is what is completely demented about this whole thing...brainwashing. I wonder how Winston will turn out in a way whether he lives or dies probably doesn't matter anymore because if he goes out in the world thinking like them his life is over anyway.
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I was thinking at first that it was odd that Parsons was in the Ministery of Love. Now, though, I wonder if he was in it before and was released as his brainwashed self because I think I recall him making sure that the telescreen heard him speak good about Big Brother and his daughter.
I don't think that Winston's instincts changed at all because he always had the vision of seeing O'Brien in his dreams and always thought that he was against the Party. I just think that he wanted so much for someone to believe what he thought about the Party, someone to be against the Party; that's why he loved Julia so much.
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