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 O’Brien explains to Winston that Room 101 is a
person’s individual personal Hell. And what exactly
would be the worst thing for Winston to be exposed to?
Rats? Yeah, rats…O’Brien thretens Winston by
showing him a cage of rats just waiting to feast on
Winston’s face. Winston is utterly terrified, and just
shots “do it to Julia!” O’Brien is officially satisfied. No
more secret/mental loyalty = only party loyalty to Big
Brother.
Places
 Room 101
 Containing “the worst thing in the world, [which] varies
from individual to individual.”
Faces
 O’Brien
 Winston
 Winston’s greatest fear
Items/Ideas to Know
 Your greatest fear: the one thing that you cannot
tolerate. What is a person willing to do to avoid the
fear…?
Quotes
 “But for everyone there is something unendurable –
something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and
cowardice are not involved…”
 “[Winston] must interpose another human being. The
body of another human being, between himself and
[the fear].”
 “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t
care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to
the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!”
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 Winston has finally been “reformed” and now spends his
time at the Chestnut Tree Café, drinking gin and playing
chess. He is not the same person he was before, and is now
very concerned over the current battles being fought in
Africa. He remembers seeing Julia at one point; she has also
changed and her face has been scarred...hmm…They agreed
that torture works and agreed to meet again but nothing
happens. He remembers a family memory and wonders if
it’s false while listening to the telescreen and accepting the
propaganda. He has an epiphany in the last line of the novel
when he looks up at the telescreen and realizes that he loves
big brother.
Places
 Chestnut Tree Café
 Winston has his own corner table
 Endless refills of gin
 Everyone avoids him
Faces
 Julia
 They meet on the street (by accident), talk, admit they
betrayed each other, and move on with their lives.
 Winston’s mother
 Winston has a happy but fake memory of playing
Snakes and Ladders
Items/Ideas to Know
 Chess moves
 Symbolic in terms of Winston’s previous struggle
 White always seems to mate black
 Chess is a game of strategy, and Winston has lost (he
has been out-maneuvered by the Party)
 False memories
 The Party leaves him alone, as he no longer is
“trouble” to them
Quotes
 “’What happens to you here is forever,’ O’Brien had said.
That was a true word. There were things, your own acts,
from which you could not recover. Something was killed in
your breast; burnt out, cauterized out.”
 “He was troubled by false memories occasionally. They did
not matter so long as one knew them for what they were.”
 “…the long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain…He had
won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”