In his novel 1984, George Orwell described Winston's mental decline and the events that brought him back to reality and gave him renewed confidence in his ability to fight.
Winston and Julia engage in sexual activity and briefly nod off in chapters IV through VII. When they awaken, Julia notices a rodent poking his head around the room's perimeter. Winston becomes terrified as he realizes that he fears rodents more than anything else. Winston remembers his recurring nightmare of standing before a mass of haze and understanding that something terrible lies on the other side. In waking from the nightmare in which Winston recalls the last time he saw his mom, we start to comprehend the misery Winston continued as a youngster and the guilt he has over his mom and sister's deaths. Winston is profoundly tormented by the narrow minded acts of his childhood. Winston starts to comprehend that before the Party, loyalty to family preceded dedication to the Party.
When going to Mr. Charrington, Winston sees the photo of St. Lenient's Dane. This photo, and its rhyme, move toward becoming images of the past for Winston. He clutches this photo, and to the initial couple of lines of the rhyme that Mr. Charrington remembered, that they speak to his optimal of indisputable truth and resistance to the Party. The Party can't control this photo, or this poem. Notwithstanding the expectation Winston puts in this protest and this rhyme, both foretell his downfall. The rhyme closes with the line, "Here comes a chopper to chop off your head," and considerably later we will discover that a telescreen is holed up behind the photo. Winston's stroll through this prole range of the city additionally affirms his rebellion, and keeps on showing him the way towards inevitable arrest and defeat.
Amid a long talk on worldwide political developments, Julia is hushed to rest and Winston follows, however simply after he understands that the book has not disclosed to him anything new. Winston and Julia wake in the morning with a misguided feeling of security and peacefulness that is intruded on significantly with the attack of the Thought Police. Just minutes sooner, Winston and Julia had again looked down at the singing prole lady, and Winston had envisioned a world loaded with basic humanity.
However it was amid this cheerful minute that the Thought Police arrived. Winston has constantly known he would be captured, yet the scene is a sensational amazement for the reader. The unavoidable day has come.
