In book three chapter three Winston is still being tortured. He is told that he is about to start the second stage or part of the three-stage process of integration which consist of learning, understanding and acceptance. O' Brien and Winston begin to go back and forth in an ongoing discussion in which consist of the patties' power. O' Brien claims that the party has a limitless power in which Winston's response is that he nor the party can alter the stars of the universe. O' Brien beats him or tortures him once again. O' Brien claims that all that is important is the control of the human mind in which is already in place and will continue to be. After that, O' Brien forces Winston the see himself in a mirror; seeing himself looking like a 60-years-old with the grayness, emaciation, and dullness made Winston start to cry. O' Brien recognizes that Winston's last strength is to not betray his love to Julia. In the end O' Brien said that it does not matter in the end because regardless everyone gets shot.
One small part of the chapter states that all that the party needs is ton control the mind and it is already successful in that. It might sound false or some what weird, but it is completely true. As a Chinese proverb says "Sow a thought and reap an act; Sow an act and reap a habit; Sow a habit and reap a character; Sow a character and reap a destiny." The latter Chinese prover captures the power of our thinking and how it can shape someones lives. The thing is that every decision made, every step taken and every action taken is first processed through the brain. The brain is something so small yet is what triggers all of the choices made. The brain controls and triggers all the responses that the body makes along with all the actions that you perform on a daily basis. Therefore if someone can find a way to control what people thing and how understand things, then they can control every action that they take.
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