In 1984, it is evident that Winston loved O'Brien. What evidence in part three suggests that OBrien, too, loved Winston?

This
question gets us into the sticky arena of how we define love. For instance, almost all
psychologists today would regard 's torture offor disciplinary purposes as unloving and hostile
in the extreme, no matter what O"Brien himself might think. On the other hand, Augustine
defined hate as the flip side of love and said that the true opposite of love is not hate but
indifference. Hate mirrors love because it is passionate and strongly invested in the object of
its hatred.

With these thoughts in mind, we can understand that while he
behaves hatefully and sadistically toward Winston in torturing him, O'Brien is also heavily
invested in Winston. In sharp contrast to how he is treated in the larger society, in prison
Winston is lavished with individual and intimate attention from O'Brien, who claims to take a
special interest in him and his reformation (we don't know whether or not O'Brien says this to
all his victims). He engages in personal conversation with Winston from...