Reading Journal: 1984 (Part 3)

It seems that Big Brother has won, in the end.  He wins because, even in his most fierce opponents, his thoughts and actions penetrate everyone's minds.  By this, I mean that everyone thinks that what the Party and Big Brother say are true, even those who had completely disagreed with him.  Those who do disagree will eventually agree with him through what happens in the Ministry of Love (the torturing and relearning of ideas).  Winston was won over in this manner, and he is completely different at the end of the book; he even thinks about how "true" the statement "2+2=5" appears (290).  The last thought we even hear about Winston is, "He loved Big Brother" (297). I think the way to start bringing the One State down lies in numbers.  Most people say that strength doesn't lie in numbers, but in this case it really does.  There need to be many anti-Party members before the One State can end.  Once you have more than 2/3 of the population of Oceania thinking rationally, then maybe you can begin considering the next step to defeating the Party.  In my opinion, that step would be to infiltrate the Thought Police, or the people who watch the telescreens.  Those people have an immense amount of control, and if rebels could have that power, they might be able to make great damage to the One State.  In the end, the Party will simply need to be overpowered by people who know better than to believe in their lies.
At the end of the book, Winston is completely changed by the Party.  When he was tortured by the rats in room 101 and called out for them to be given to Julia, it sparked the change in Winston.  After that and the days that he was relearning information, his very being was dedicated to the Party.  All of his thoughts were directed towards the victory of the Party, or the love of Big Brother.  In the last part of the novel, all Winston is even concerned about is whether or not Eurasia had been defeated.  Basically, Winston is brainwashed into exactly the type of person he had hated at the beginning of the book.