Chapter 3

In chapter 3, there was one quote from page 35, where Winston describes, or tells us how "double think" is for them. In the previous chapter, you read that he kept a diary and hid it when he was done. Why did he do that? He did that so he wouldn't be caught if they went into his apartment, or home. "....To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself--that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed." Winston explains how the process goes when they are in double think. That is a long process, and way they do things in the double thinking. After he explained the process, or how it is, he says "Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink." That sounds really complicated but it's true if you really think about it.