" Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me-" (Orwell, 293).
Winston was betrayed throughout this entire story, and now he has been tortured into becoming the exact thing he was fighting against. Orwell is showing that even though there are minorities willing to stand up to what they believe is right, the party in power usually has absolute control and resistance will only end in disappointment.
nice quote to pull..the tree piece is interesting because the symbol is usually so much more positively used in other works
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