To maintain their absolute control over the individual, the Party finds Julia’s breaking point by exploiting her nightmarish fears, and they completely strip Julia of every unique component. Julia is a rebellious soul in the Party’s oppressive society who imbues sex and passion as a way of internal rebellion. By pursuing sex as an individual interest, Julia wants to use her small freedoms to hurt the party as much as possible.After capturing Julia, O’Brien leads the torturous brainwashing, and after completely modifying Julia’s existence, he uses her as an example to break down Winston’s spirit. O’Brien reveals that he destroyed every “endearing” aspect of Julia’s personality. During her interrogation, O’Brien stripped her of “all her rebelliousness, …show more content…
Through torture and fear, the Party ultimately can remove any and every opposing force and brainwash them into becoming the Party’s biggest tool in systematically rooting out any threats to the Party. After being released from the ministry of love, Julia’s jarring comment about her feelings toward Winston inadvertently illuminates the Party’s ability to not only control the body, but to also control the minds of the people. When Winston and Julia reconnect after being released from the ministry of love, there seems to be an air of repugnance between …show more content…
The idea that Julia seemed eager to hurt Winston mystifies the reader because before the ministry of love, they both would sacrifice themselves with alacrity. Somehow, the Party reformed Julia and Winston; in other words, the Party effectively manipulated their thoughts and emotions through the horrors of room 101. Julia knows she betrayed Winston, and even if she had the chance to change her actions during her interrogation and save Winston, she would indisputably betray him at every opportunity. For Julia, “all [she] care[s] about is [her]self,” but unfortunately, this closed and selfish mindset is conventional in the Party’s oppressed conformist society (Orwell 292). In Big Brother’s society, the most prevalent feature of human nature is self preservation, but the Party wants that “self” to instead be a drive to preserve the Party. The daunting fact of room 101 is everybody has a breaking point where they can be molded into whatever the Party wanted, so the Party exploits their physical control of the people as a method to manipulate the principles of the