This is our twenty-first episode in our longer series on Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. O’Brien tortures Winston with an electroshock rig, and employs a protracted gaslighting technique. We examine more deeply what dystopia does to your thinking and how it uses your natural thought processes against you. In dystopia, you can be broken down, you … Continue reading E81: 1984 Part 3, Chapter 2 Electroshock Interrogation