[Dr. Sivana]

The last couple of chapters in the book....resembling some Brit romance story gone sour, was just wasted story-telling.

I strongly disagree. The point is made that mere natural human love is not enough to resist an all-out assault using pain and fear. Orwell was an atheist, as well as Winston, but he was an honest enough writer to see that natural forces enough, even a strong human love/desire is not a high enough ideal to resist Ingsoc. The last 30% (including his sinecure, and display to the folks of Airstrip One) illustrates the totality of his defeat. In the end, he loved Big Brother.

[dfwgator]

And the fact that Orwell was an atheist, what does that tell you. That he wrote a book basically saying that in the end, there really is no hope, why would an atheist believe anything else?