Illuminator- Pt.2 Ch.8 - Protagonist conflict #2

"You will get no comradeship and no encouragement. When finally you are caught, you will get no help. We never help our members. At most, when it is absolutely necessary that someone should be silenced, we are occasionally able to smuggle a razor blade into a prisoner's cell. You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results that you will ever see. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way. "

This segment shows Winston's conflict, which is to help the Brotherhood, which is the organization that rebels against the Party. He has agreed, along with Julia, that he would do anything to support the Brotherhood, except separate from Julia to never see her again. This passage shows the danger of becoming a Brotherhood member, because it is definite that they will be caught, and they are to confess, and they will die under the hand of the Party. In some cases, they may even have to commit suicide.