Summary Of Cathy Lowne's Nineteen Eighty-Four

The fact that Winston could not force himself to lose consciousness and that he was able to recover eventually shows that the pain from physical torture is only temporary. In the secondary source article, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the author, Cathy Lowne, states the torture Winston experiences is “intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independence and destroy his dignity and humanity”(Lowne). For physical torture to be as effective as psychological manipulation, it would have to have a longer term effect. In the end, psychological manipulation prevails over physical torture, making it more effective. The internal perpetual suffering is caused by the effect of temporary physical torture. The physical pain Winston experiences does not last

Winston thinks to himself before he undergoes physical torture that there is nothing as bad as physical pain and that there are no heroes in the face of it. He thinks this before he experiences the psychological effect that the torture has on him. While Winston’s beatings become less frequent and more of a mere threat, his questioners still managed to cause him pain as “They slapped his face, wrung his ears, pulled his hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning” (Orwell 241). He soon realizes that psychological torture is more painful than temporary physical pain he has endured and stems from physical pain. Although the physical torture Winston experiences from his