Winston specifically is tortured in a number of ways. These include (but are not limited to): starvation, deprivation, betraying his secret love, being threatened to be eaten by rats, and accepting the government.
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Up unto his final torture of betraying his own mind and of those close to him, he was beaten and bruised over the course of weeks, maybe even months, starved, electrocuted, and psychologically tortured
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Winston Smith is the main character in 1984 . Winston Smith.
Winston now makes a serious attempt to find a connection with the past. Winston knows that his actions mean certain torture and death, yet he continues to search, hoping that he is not alone, that someone else feels as he does. This is the first time in the novel that Winston actively reaches out to the past, to his curiosity and obsession with memory and history, and it is this action that seals his fate. At this point, Winston wonders if he is the only one who remembers the past.
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