There are
two ways of understanding this question. If by reintegration we mean 's reintegration as a
whole, caring, humane person, the first stage would be starting the diary, which means thinking
for himself. The second and most important would be falling in love withand establishing a
part-time domestic relationship with her in the room above Mr. Charrington's shop. Third is
joining the alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government, of which Winston thinksis a part.
The second step gives Winston the willingness to sacrifice himself for another person (beyond
Big Brother), and the third gives him the sense of being part of something larger than himself
that he can commit himself to wholly.
However, if we understand his
"reintegration" as his being refitted for the Party and realigned with its ideology,
the three stages would be: his imprisonment and torture, culminating in his ability to accept
two plus two equaling five; Room 101, where he faces his greatest fear and betrays Julia, the
one thing he said he would never do; and finally, his release back into society as a broken but
loyal man, awaiting the bullet that will kill him. The questionraises at the end, with Winston's
sudden, unbidden happy memory of a time playing a game with his mother, is whether the state
ever fully reintegrates him.
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