Foreshadowing and Winston, they just go hand-in-hand

The thing that Winston knows will happen is all thanks to O’Brien. Winston feels like this is fate, and that the only way to find out what will happen in the future, is if he finally finds out O’Brien’s true motives. When Winston says, “I knew sooner or later…” he is of course talking about that sooner or later his path would lead him to the Ministry of Love. The foreshadowing here has been building ever since Winston bought the journal and said, “I know one day I will be arrested by the Thought Police for this” and know that build up has gotten to the point of overflow. Winston knows he will be arrested, and he also knows that there is no way to prevent this because he knows that if he runs he will be captured, if he stops every rebellious act, all that will do is give him a stall at best, so his choice is to plow forward and hope that he will still be alive by the end. O’Brien has been a big question mark since the beginning, so anything goes when it comes to his real motives, all I can surmise is that something big is about to happen.