"The afternoon was more bearable. Immediately after lunch there arrived a delicate, difficult piece of work which would take several hours and necessitated putting else aside...This was the kind of thing that Winston was good at, and for more than two hours he succeeded in shutting the girl out of his mind altogether." (page 109)
This is after "the girl" has slipped the love note to Winston and therefore has completely invaded his mind. Living in this brainwashed society Winston has become accepting of suppressing his emotions his whole life and because of this I feel that he does not understand his emotions. Living in a society with a constant fear of doing wrong by your higher ups causes you to become brainwashed, and run or hide from your own emotions for fear that they go against the government. Why is it that Winston is so comfortable to control these emotions at first? Is this an example of Winston being brainwashed?
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