Why is 1984 told in third person

By having to read the brutal and explicit language of the torture scene, we are similarly tortured. We become Winston - until his departure from free will at the end.

Then we feel particularly awful since we have gotten used to sympathizing with him, to experiencing things with him. And this experience that you, the reader, go through is made possible by the Third Person Limited Omniscient Narrative Technique.

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