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regards to the use of torture as described in , its most striking feature
is that it is not used in the classic sense to extract a simple confession or give up
information (usually followed by the elimination of the victim), but rather to convertandto the
party's thinking and make them compliant citizens in Oceania. Assays in the second chapter of
part three "You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped
out....We do not destroy the heretic....we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but
genuinely, heart and soul."
Whilst Winston is at first subjected to the
usual bodily beatings one would expect with torture (causing him to plead for...
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