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Symbolism In Room 101 By George Orwell

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At this point Julia and Winston have yet to betray one another, but Winston believes that the beating they will receive with have him or Julia turn on each other. “Room 101 said the officer” Winston was taken into a room which was called “ Room 101” which is where they take people and torture them not of it was physical torture like beatings. Winston feared rats so when he gets dragged down into the room I originally thought they were gonna kill him but he isn’t scared of death. The room could be a symbol in the story it could represent people’s worst fears. I looked up the meaning of a rat and it says it symbols depravity which means wickedness. Scientist can manipulate rats and have them do what they want just like how this government in
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He begins his illegal love affair with Julia, once again defying the government. However, when he is taken by the police to the ministry of love and punished for this crime, he betrays his lover. Julia and Winston built a trustworthy secret relationship via their mutual hate for the government, but Winston gives it all up when he is threatened in room 101. Big Brother succeeds in pushing Winston to his breaking point, in which he exposes Julia to save himself. He yells to his torturers, “Do it to Julia!

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there was just one person to whom he could transfer his punishment… Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia” (Orwell 286)! Under normal circumstances Winston wouldn’t tell them to hurt Julia not him. However, he is so scared of the rats, that in his mind he has no choice but to blame her. This shows that fear compels us to agree to things we wouldn't normally agree to.

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I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't 6 years old. You can take a whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it but not room 101" (Orwell 236-237)! This is one of Winston's first days in prison, and he is already dreading having to go to "room 101" because of what this skull-faced man just said. Room 101 is where you will be tortured by Big Brother until he gets what he wants out of you.

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In the book, the author says that Winston was caught and tortured to thinking 2 + 2 = 5 saying “But they could get inside you.” This supports my topic because Winston and Julia talked and Julia had told him the party could get them but not get inside, but he now gets that they could. Winston had also turned his torture to Julia saying “‘Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me!

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Mr. Charrington’s room in his antique shop symbolizes the fact that no matter where anyone is at, they are always being watched by the Party. When Winston had first moved into the room, he began to feel more at peace with himself and physically, as well as mentally, improved. He still had the same beliefs he had before he relocated, but his ulcer was less irritated and he was happier. This new sense of serenity arrised because Winston believed this was the place he could go to escape the Party and be at his own thoughts without worrying about being caught with Thoughtcrime. Little did he know, the room wasn’t as secretive as he had thought it was.

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Winston fails to stay true to his belief of staying loyal to Julia going against how a hero is someone who is idealized for being moral. As part of the Party’s plan to reintegrate those who have rebelled against them, the final step is going to room 101 that holds “the worst thing in the world” (283). Winston and Julia have fail to betray each other throughout their obscure time in the Ministry of Love until one of Winston’s greatest fears, rats are literally brought to the table. Winston fears rats more than anything and he did not want to interact with them in any negative way causing him to yell out “'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!

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He finds Julia attractive, although he hates her because he is suspicious that she is, like Katharine, a strong and trusting supporter of the Party. Later in the novel, Winston is hunting for truth, ventures to the prole’s (working class) quarters, and questions a random elderly prole about life before Big Brother. Unsatisfied with the prole’s answers, he continues his wanderings, entering a junk shop where he meets another older man named Mr. Charrington. Mr. Charrington sells Winston a glass paperweight and shows him a room upstairs that appears to be private. Winston considers renting the room for it has “a sort of ancestral memory,” but fear prevents him.

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Orwell’s novel 1984 displays how each person can perceive symbolism in a different way with Room 101. For some, Room 101 symbolizes failure as Winston fails overthrowing the government and is then punished in the room for his attempt. For others, Room 101 symbolizes helplessness and vulnerability to greatest fears

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