April 10th

Pay careful attention to the last paragraph in Chapter 6, which begins “He knew sooner or later…” What does Winston seem to know? What is being foreshadowed here? Also, what do you think of O’Brien up to this point?

Winston thinks that he will be captured by the though police, but not only that he thinks he will be captured, taken to the ministry of love tortured and then killed. He has no doubt in his mind that this will happen. This foreshadows that Winston will in fact be caught and tortured. That much we know. However we still do not know when and how he will be caught or who will betray him. As for O'Brien both Winston and Julia are pretty certain that he is on there side. We hear that Julia is pretty good at picking out traitors. She was able to pick out Winston and all the other men that she had been with, however it was Winston that shared the glance with O'Brien not Julia. Julia seems to agree with Winston, but how sure can we really be that Winston is right. After all his vision, to me, seems to be too clouded with hope. It could be likely that he saw only what he wanted to see in his exchange of glances with O'Brien. He wanted so much to know that someone was on his side that he, in his mind, made up the meaning that was shared between the glance. Only time will tell whether O'Brien is with them or not.