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O'Brien escorts Winston to Room 101.� He tells Winston that Room 101 represents the worst thing in the
world for each person.� He explains, "The worst think in the world varies from individual to individual.�
It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by impalement, or fifty other deaths.�
There are cases where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal.In your case.the worst think in
the world happens to be rats" (p. 286).� O'Brien taunts Winston with a cage full of grotesque rats.�
He describes a macabre mask that will fit over his face and allow the rats in the cage to eat him alive.�
As O'Brien moves the mask over Winston's face, the rats just inches away, Winston screams, "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!"� (p. 289)� In victory, O'Brien pulls the cage away from
Winston's face.
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Free but defeated, Winston sits quietly at the Chestnut Tree Caf� drinking Victory gin.� A shell of
his former self, Winston spends his days at the cafe listening to the latest reports on the war with
Eastasia.� He remembers seeing Julia in the city after O'Brien released him from the Ministry of Love.�
They no longer shared anything and they barely recognized each other.� Winston seems to react to the
outer world only when he hears news of an Oceania victory.� The Party controls him completely.� 1984
ends with Winston gazing at a picture of Big Brother: "He gazed up at the enormous face.� Forty years
it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache.� O cruel, needless
misunderstanding!� O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast!� Two gin-scented tears trickled
down the sides of his nose.� But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished.�
He had won the victory over himself.� He loved Big Brother" (p. 300).
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