Rather than making Winston win against Big Brother and end up with the girl so that they can live happily ever after, Orwell makes it so that Winston and Julia are both captured and tortured to the point where they turn on each other. "With the first blow on the elbow the nightmare had started. Later he was to realise that all that then happened was merely a preliminary, a routine interrogation to which nearly all prisoner were subjected "(Orwell, 252). In addition ,O'Brien invites Winston and Julia to his house because O'Brien suspects that Winston and Julia are rebelling against Big Brother, after O'Brien earned Winstons trust by giving him a book which explains Big Brother and who he is and how he came to be, Winston decides to take a leap of faith and confesses to O'Brien saying that he was rebelling against Big Brother with Julia. After going home Winston decides to read the book and he is fascinated by it, just before Winston can finish the book the thought broke in. Winston showed that he can resist the natural punishment that most prisoners have to deal with. It was only after that they took Winston to room 101 that he finally cracked which shows that the Government has to go to extreme length so that they can completely break down a person. All things considered in the novel it just proves that the government or Big Brother will stop at nothing until they have total power over the people no matter how many people they have to walk over to do it. The government along with Big Brother want to have total control over the mind of people, and they do so by filling it up with nonsense propaganda and videos explaining that Big brother is the saviour.
Secondly, Winston gives us an insight of the great lengths that we would travel for our loved ones. Winston hates Julia he hates her because she is beautiful and smart and he can't have her but that all changes when she slips him a note that reads "I love you ".