Chapter 3

Winston Smith was trying to understand his inscrutable memories he had about his family. All he remembered is that the last time he saw his family was when he was 11 or 10 years old. He believed that his mother, father and his sister all disappeared in the great purges of the 50’s. He knew that his family died sinking down in the green water of about a hundred fathoms. Winston went back to a dream, he found himself in a pasture where a woman flung her clothes disdainfully aside but it did not caught Winston’s attention.

It was seven fifteen time to wake up because “the physical jerks” were about to begin. His trainee appeared in the telescreen, she was a scrawny woman, and very enthusiastic about the exercise they were about to do. Winston had a grimy look in his face, which was good for this occasion. He went back and recalled  that when he was a child: the maps, and countries were all different. For example, airship one was called Britain or England.

During Winston's life time he was consciousness that Oceania had always been in war even though he was not sure of who was the enemy, since there were no written record, and no spoken word and nothing was ever mentioned. The only war he knows about was the one happening at that moment, the war of Oceania that had Eastasia as alliance against Eurasia. Only four years ago he had as knowledge that Oceania was at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. The party says that Oceania has never been in alliance with Eurasia, but Winston knows that that knowledge he has must be annihilated.  He knew that if everyone was deceived by the falsehood told by the party then all the records will be written in the party’s most beneficial perspective making a lie become a true fact, since it will be passed down through generations. Another lie told by the party is that big brother was a leader since the 30’s and even though Winston had difficulty remembering what actually happen, he knew that big brother appeared at around the 60’s but the party says that big brother appeared around the 30’s.

The trainee from the telescreen caught Winston’s attention because even though Winston’s body was doing exercise, he soul was actually not there. He kept pondering about his imperceptible memories.

Party’s slogan

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: 
who controls the present controls the past.”