Torture And Torture In 1984

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Torture is Truth In the book 1984, the Ministry of Love essentially is a facility where prisoners are brought and kept for torturing; where they are taught to love Big Brother. The prisoners are individuals whom are believed to have committed a thought-crime or opposed Big Brother in various ways. The Ministry of Love is an immense complex full of windowless rooms where prisoners are unable to see daylight and lose a complete sense of time. These prisoners are constantly monitored by a telescreen, which, if you make the wrong movements, will scream at you to sit still. Every prisoner will undergo some sort of interrogation where they confess to crimes, ones they have committed, and even to those that they have not. The techniques used in the Ministry of Love are very extreme and brutal. For example, during Winston’s first beating, his arm is broken at the elbow; this did not give the torturers any information, but seemed to only serve the purpose of injuring and torturing the prisoner. In the case of Winston, he was tortured many times and to the point where he Some believe that even in the most dire of situations, the act of torturing a prisoner to obtain information is not the most effective or efficient way to glean accurate information of a threat or terrorist group; experts have said that it is actually a very inefficient way to go about this and even that it is only on rare occasions that this results in useful, accurate information. However, there are also those who believe the exact opposite; that the only way to get information from a terrorist, or someone believed to be involved in terrorist activity, is to mentally break them down until they have suffered enough to surrender any information they might know or to the point where they just say whatever is necessary for the “interrogation” to stop, as in

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