<P> The next day, Julia surreptitiously hands Winston a note confessing her love for him . Winston and Julia begin an affair after Winston realizes she shares his loathing of the Party, first meeting in the country, and eventually in a rented room at the top of the antiques shop where Winston purchased the diary, which is owned by the seemingly kindly Mr. Charrington . They believe that the shop is safe, as the room has no telescreen . During his affair with Julia, Winston remembers the death of his family; during the civil war of the 1950's, Winston stole rationed chocolate from his malnourished infant sister and his mother, and would return home to discover that they had disappeared . He also recounts his terse relationship with his ex-wife Katharine, whom he was forced to have sex with and despised to such an extent that he considered pushing her off a cliff during a nature walk . Winston also interacts with his colleague Syme, who is writing a dictionary for a revised version of the English language called Newspeak . After Syme insightfully reveals that the true purpose of Newspeak is to reduce the capacity of human thought, Winston speculates that he will be vaporized . He is later proven correct when Syme disappears without a trace, and no one acknowledges his absence . </P> <P> Weeks later, Winston is approached by O'Brien . They arrange a meeting at O'Brien's flat where both Winston and Julia swear allegiance to the Brotherhood . A week later, O'Brien clandestinely sends Winston a copy of "The Book", The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, the publicly reviled leader of the Brotherhood . Through The Book, the author explains the structure and practices of Oceania . In particular, The Book explains the concept of perpetual war, the true meanings of the slogans "War is peace", "Freedom is slavery", and "Ignorance is strength", and how the Party can be overthrown through means of the political awareness of the proles (proletarians). </P> <P> The Thought Police capture Winston along with Julia in their rented room . The two are then delivered to the Ministry of Love (Miniluv) for interrogation . Mr. Charrington, the shopkeeper who rented the room to them, reveals himself as a Thought Police agent . O'Brien is also an agent of the Thought Police . He is part of a special sting operation used by the police to find and arrest suspected thoughtcriminals . Winston is placed in a prison cell with Parsons, who had been reported by his children and believes himself to be guilty . O'Brien interrogates and tortures Winston with electroshock, telling Winston that he can "cure" himself of his "insanity"--his manifest hatred for the Party--through controlled manipulation of perception . Winston is held in the prison for an unspecified length of time, and confesses to crimes that O'Brien tells him to say that he has committed, but O'Brien understands that Winston has not betrayed Julia . After awakening from a nightmare in which he confesses his love for Julia, O'Brien sends him to Room 101 for the final stage of re-education, a room which contains each prisoner's worst fear . Winston shouts "Do it to Julia!" as a wire cage holding hungry rats is fitted onto his face, thus betraying her . </P> <P> After being put back into society, Winston meets Julia in a park . She admits that she was also tortured, and both reveal betraying the other . Later, Winston sits alone in the Chestnut Tree Cafe . As he remembers a rare happy memory of his family, he convinces himself that it is false . A raucous celebration begins outside, celebrating Oceania's "decisive victory" over Eurasian armies in Africa, and Winston imagines himself as a part of the crowd . As Winston imagines a gun being pointed at his head, he feels that he has at last ended his "stubborn, self - willed exile" from the love of Big Brother--a love Winston returns quite happily as he looks up in admiration at a portrait of Big Brother . </P>

Who said war is peace freedom is slavery