They do not care about the crimes that people have committed; they only care about the mind. As O'Brian said to Winston "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them" (Orwell 256). O'Brian also says that there will be no martyrs in the community. Throughout the book, Big Brother does not only want to kill his prisoner, but he wants to kill them in a way that the prisoner repents what he did and believes that he is at fault when he dies. O'Brian argues that all other inquisitions in the past failed because the dead were glorified and were used to bring up power in the rebel groups such as the Spanish Inquisition. In the Ministry of Love's way the prisoner is annihilated and he will never be remembered. Orwell here clearly criticizes Stalin's methods. Orwell's here critiques Stalin' methods. Here, Orwell here argues that these methods used by Stalin are not effective because brainwashing prisoners does not always help the country because Stalin's victims still died as martyrs. He also argues that it is wrong to completely annihilate people and use torture to brainwash them.
Darius Rejali believes that the main purpose of torture is to bring out false information. Rejali notes that "the three models of torture correspond roughly to the two main purposes of government torture: to intimidate, and to coerce false information." (23) Rejali discusses in his book the usefulness of torture. Rejali found that in most instances torture produces inaccurate information because the prisoner will say anything to please the questioner so that the pain will stop. This clearly happens in 1984 when Winston replies to O'Brian that he is holding five fingers and anything he wants just to make the pain stop. Rejali also reports that "no one can doubt that coercive interrogation techniques can serve to intimidate or generate false confessions" (23). Coercive interrogation techniques help to intimidate Winston.
