In the book, 1984 by George Orwell, Winston is a creation of the Party as they know what he is thinking and control his every move by manipulating his environment. Winston is a fabricated rebel used to test the Party’s true power and strength; a simulated virus that must be destroyed by their defenses to ensure their victory over the people. The Party must be ready for any attack against their authority and Winston was the perfect invention. The Party plays games with Winston to instill the idea of being human in him. As they use him for training their members to purge their world of any insurgents, they also influence him for their own amusement. O’Brien tells him, “Do not imagine saving yourself Winston, however completely you surrender to us”(256) to …show more content…
He remembers stories written by the Party. He remembers “a candle-lit room with a vast white-counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice box and laughing excitedly. His mother was sitting opposite him and also laughing...For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together, as in his earlier childhood”(295). Winston learned from the Party, however, and quickly “pushed the picture out of his mind. It was a false memory. He was troubled by false memories occasionally”(296). Besides using memories to inculcate a sense of being human, the Party creates memories in Winston to train its members. “Do you remember…”(284) O’Brien asks Winston, “the moment of panic that used to occur in your dreams? There was a wall of blackness in front of you, and a roaring sound in your ears. There was something terrible on the other side of the wall”(284). “The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world”(283). For Winston, “the worst thing in the world happens to be rats”(283) and this is what is used to mimic the worst thing in the world for real thought criminals. These memories are what would be used to force them into