Big Brother has won. When Winston tried to rebel and join the Brotherhood with Julia, the thought police captured and tortured him. They tortured him so much that Winston actually believed and agreed with all of the Party's slogans and views. As sad as it is to say, I do not think the One State can be brought down. They have too much control to overpower. The One State controls what people do, what they eat, how they live, and heck, even how they think. Plus, everyone who has thought of rebelling has ben caught, tortured into agreeing with the one state, or they are vaporized. It is that simple, the One State controls all.
At the end of the book I think that Winston succumbs to the One State. He gave in to all the torturing and now is a devoted Party member. Winston was so scared of the rats that he would do anything to get out of that situatuion, even if it hurt Julia. "And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."
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