Identify and explain one important theme in three passages from part 2 chapter 10 to part 3 chapter 1 in 1984 by George Orwell.

The power
of Big Brother can be seen in specific passages from both chapters.  It is at this point where
one can see how the resistance shown in the affair ofandis a fundamental threat to Big Brother. 
In this, the presence of Big Brother asserts itself and becomes undeniable.  The theme of Big
Brother's power is seen the moment the two lovers are discovered:

€˜We are the dead, he said.

€˜We are the dead, echoed Julia
dutifully.

€˜You are the dead, said an iron voice behind them.

€˜You are the dead, repeated the iron voice.

€˜It was behind the
picture, breathed Julia.

€˜It was behind the picture, said the voice.
€˜Remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered.

It
was starting, it was starting at last! They could do nothing except stand gazing into one
anothers eyes. To run for life, to get out of the house before it was too lateno such thought
occurred to them. Unthinkable to disobey the iron voice from the wall.

In the transition from the two lovers speaking in almost hushed
tone to one another to the absolutist and dictatorial voice from behind the wall, the passage
illustrates the power of Big Brother to supplant one's own personal affections and desires,
subjugating them to the will of the external authority.

The continuing power
of Big Brother is seen when Winston is rendered into a state of physical and moral paralysis as
the police force enters the apartment:

One of the men had
smashed his fist into Julias solar plexus, doubling her up like a pocket ruler. She was
thrashing about on the floor, fighting for breath. Winston dared not turn his head even by a
millimetre, but sometimes her livid, gasping face came within the angle of his vision. Even in
his terror it was as though he could feel the pain in his own body, the deadly pain which
nevertheless was less urgent than the struggle to get back her breath.

Even Julia being beaten cannot move Winston to action.  He is
paralyzed with both the physical and emotional realities of being trapped in the power of Big
Brother.  It is this condition that causes him to not stand up or even try to defend himself or
the woman with whom he shared so much.

Finally, the power of Big Brother can
be seen in the cell where Winston is taken to open the last part of the work.  The condition of
Big Brother's power is meant to ensure that the individual will is no match for it:

€˜Smith! yelled a voice from the telescreen. €˜6079 Smith W.! Hands
out of pockets in the cells!

He sat still again, his hands crossed on his
knee. Before being brought here he had been taken to another place which must have been an
ordinary prison or a temporary lock-up used by the patrols. He did not know how long he had been
there; some hours at any rate; with no clocks and no daylight it was hard to gauge the time. It
was a noisy, evil-smelling place. They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was now in,
but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people.

Being reprimanded for putting his hands in his pockets, rendered
silent from activating voice, and breaking his will in collectivizing him with others devoid of
explanation or reason are all examples from this passage where Big Brother's power is
undeniable.  It is able to reach inside the realm of the individual and destroy any semblance of
resistance.  These passages help to illuminate this thematic condition that is so integral to
the work's understanding.