THE END

After months of secretly rebelling against the government and doing enough illegal acts to earn him to be killed hundreds of times over, Winston has been betrayed, caught, tortured and broken. He now believes that 2 + 2 = 5, and Big Brother has finally gotten inside that last few inches in his head, and he owns it. In a last act of desperation and self preservation, Winston betrayed Julia, showing that nothing else mattered to him, that any ties he once had to her were severed, and that Big Brother owns him. When he is set free, even when he meets Julia he is uninterested. His will has been broken, his thoughts of revolution shattered, and he even admits that in the end, he loved Big Brother.