I remember during one of the last scenes in the Ministry of Love O'Brien takes Winston before a mirror and says 'If you are really a man then you are the last man on Eearth; what you see before you is all that remains of humanity' and the narration describes it as a world of skeletons. It is the moment at which most of his resolve was destroyed (the rest of it went during his visit to Room 101) and I think, along with the two-minute hate reference (which makes a lot of sense) I think this song is also a reference to Winston seeing himself in the mirrors.
I remember during one of the last scenes in the Ministry of Love O'Brien takes Winston before a mirror and says 'If you are really a man then you are the last man on Eearth; what you see before you is all that remains of humanity' and the narration describes it as a world of skeletons. It is the moment at which most of his resolve was destroyed (the rest of it went during his visit to Room 101) and I think, along with the two-minute hate reference (which makes a lot of sense) I think this song is also a reference to Winston seeing himself in the mirrors.