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CHAPTERS 6, 7 & 8

In chapters 6, 7, and 8, Winston reflects on his troubled past, particularly his failed marriage to Katharine and the oppressive nature of the Party. He contemplates the potential for rebellion among the proles, questioning whether a return to capitalism would truly improve life. Ultimately, Winston seeks the truth about the past by visiting a prole area, where he engages in a meaningful conversation with a shop owner, promising to return.

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CHAPTERS 6, 7 & 8

In chapters 6, 7, and 8, Winston reflects on his troubled past, particularly his failed marriage to Katharine and the oppressive nature of the Party. He contemplates the potential for rebellion among the proles, questioning whether a return to capitalism would truly improve life. Ultimately, Winston seeks the truth about the past by visiting a prole area, where he engages in a meaningful conversation with a shop owner, promising to return.

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CHAPTERS 6, 7 AND 8

Through those three chapters, Winston recalls a disturbing past memory, questions
about the Party and even doubts his own sanity and, at last, he goes seek for the truth.

On chapter 6, Winston tries to write an unpleasant memory on his diary as a type of


therapy. However, as he recalls the memory it’s too much for him to continue. Then, he
remembers the reason of this bad memory: his wife, Katharine. She was a woman just like the
others of the Party, brainwashed to see sex as something disgusting and unpleasant, to
perceive love as unecessary and prohibited even. After getting married, Winston and she tried
many times to have children, as this was the only purpose of getting married, however it didn’t
work, so they were separated (not divorced). Some time later, as he was seeking company, he
went after a prostitute, but the one he found was an old woman in a terrible state. Then, the
bad memory was created, he had layed with the old lady. (PS: This part reminded me of the
movie the shining)

Next, on chapter 7, Winston goes back on thinking about the Party. “If there is hope, it
lies in the proles”, he wrote. Since the prole was 85% of the population of Oceania and the
Party barely pays attention to them, they had the freedom to do whathever as long it didn’t
harm the Party. On the other hand, he begins to doubt if a rebelion would be a good thing, he
wasn’t sure if going back to capitalism would be the answer to a better life. Sure, it was clear
that the history books written by the Party had its fair share of lies, but how much of that was
a lie? But again, he thinks, at least in the previous world people had freedom to say what they
fought. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else
follows.”

Finally, on chapter 8, our protagonist goes to a part of London that once was Saint
Pancras Station, but now it’s where the prole lives. Even though it could get him in trouble, as
the Party sees a change in your daily life as a form of rebellion, he stills goes there to seek for
the true past. Although his first attempt at a bar was a failure, after entering the small shop
that he had previously bought his diary, the owner of the shop, who was already old and surely
had seen the world before the Party, begins to chat with him. Both of them seemed happy to
be talking about that, then as Winston exits the shop he promises to himself to go back to the
shop someday.

(PS: Winston comments that he has a varicose ulcer. I didn’t know what it was, so I searched
it… and I regret it)

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