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Room 101 George Orwell Analysis

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Room 101 was the final step of of brainwashing for Winston. This was where O’Brien used your greatest fears to suck out any of your own opinions and create a true love for Big Brother. Room 101 is different for each person, it beholds all of the things the individual being placed in the room is afraid of. In the steps before Room 101 O’Brien asked Winston what his feelings were on Big Brother. Winston had always replied with the same answer, he hated big brother. Now, in this stage O’Brien uses Winston’s fears to basically change his mind. At one point Winston asks O’brien to stop and to torture Julia instead. “In your case,” said O’Brien, “the worst thing in the world happens to be rats.” (Orwell 283) O’brien figured out what Winston was …show more content…

Next the clowns appear in the room. The worst part is they aren’t touching me but coming so close to me I can’t breathe. It’s almost as if they cut off the oxygen supply in this cubicle they call a room. After that ends I feel the something crawling on me. Bugs. “Please make it stop!” Like an episode of fear factor. There’s spiders, bees, Ichneumon female wasps, ladybugs, horse flies, and Pine Beetles. All in mass quantities crawling all over me, they won’t come off. “It’s itchy and they won’t come off!” I’m yelling but nobody is listening. They’re sticking to my body like glue. The chanting is still going on and the air is getting thicker. The bugs disappear and I'm left in the dark again. The room fills with ocean water and I have a scuba suit on. I see a fin above the surface of the water. It is a shark. I’m swimming everywhere around the tank trying to get away. There is no escaping this. “Let me be! Please” The room turns dark one last time and the repetitive chanting suddenly stops. I am alone, in this dark quiet room and I’m starting to forget how I ended up here in the first place. My brain gets super fuzzy, my vision blurry and I fall asleep. I have heard the news that Oceania had made a breakthrough in the war. I couldn’t be more ecstatic, I knew we could do it. I knew Big Brother could lead us to yet again another victory! I exit Room 101

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