Ultimately, as every reader knows, Winston's stubborn soul is successfully "engineered." Orwell's chilling final passages fulfill the life of that dry seed planted at the turn of the century in Italy's impoverished soil and nourished by war, deprivation, and humiliation to flower in the nightmare of Nazi Germany and the apocalypse of Stalin's Russia, finally to bear fruit in Orwell's imagination: a testament for all time to what Mussolini had called the "ferocious totalitarian will" and the souls on which it feeds. Winston basks in serene elation, "his soul white as snow.… He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1183