The note said, "I love you"(Orwell 90). They make plans to meet each other, and carried on an illegal love affair. This love affair is another example of rebellion against the government. It goes on for some time. Winston rents a room where he and Julia can be secluded from the "utopian" community called Oceania. They meet a man named O'Brien who reveals that he too is a revolutionary. Winston and Julia go to his house to meet with him. O'Brien gives them a treasonable book to read. Soon after it was given to them the Thought Police caught them. Leading to them unable to see each other again. O'Brien becomes Winston's rehabilitator and torturer for the next 9 months. O'Brien tortures Winston in stages. The first two stages are to force the party's beliefs on him, and then learn and understand what is expected of him. In the third stage, Winston is made to face what he secretly fears most, rats eating his face. After being completely rehabilitated by O'Brien, Winston now loves the establishment and the government. He is set free. Big Brother is the head of a government, which has total control over the people of Oceania. The Big Brother regime uses propaganda to puts fear in the minds of its citizens, in order to keep the people of Oceania in line and under their "control." "Big Brother is watching you,"(Orwell 5) is just an example of one of the many party slogans, which puts fear in minds of its citizens. O'Brien is an informer for Big Brother, he is not who he appears to be to Winston. Who believes he is a fellow conspirator, but who in reality becomes Winston's torturer and "rehabilitator." Neither O'Brien nor the party can tolerate Winston's betrayal of the government. O'Brien tells his victim, "You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out.It is intolerable that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
