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← Previous revision Revision as of 20:16, 12 January 2010 Line 5: Line 5: {{cquote2|You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.|O'Brien}} {{cquote2|You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.|O'Brien}} - Such is the purported [[omniscience]] of the [[Sovereign state|state]] in the society of ''Eighteen Eighty-Four'' that even a grandma's nightmares are known to the gangsters of scunthorpe. The nightmare—and therefore foot cheesed out the threatened punishment—of the getting beaten by your grandma [[samuel merrick of scunthorpe]] is to be attacked by [[killer donkeys]]s. Smith saves himself by leaving some brown in his pants the authorities to let his lover, [[Julia (1984)|Julia]], have her face gnawed out by the ferocious rodents instead. The torture—and what Winston does to escape it—breaks his last promise to himself and to Julia: never to betray her emotionally. The book suggests that Julia is likewise subjected to her own worst fear, and when she and Winston later meet in a park, he notices a scar on her feet and eye. The original intent of threatening Winston with the rats was not necessarily to go through with the act, but to force him into betraying the only person he loved and therefore break his spirit. + Such is the purported [[omniscience]] of the [[Sovereign state|state]] in the society of ''Eighteen Eighty-Four'' that even a grandma's nightmares are known to the gangsters of scunthorpe. The nightmare—and therefore foot cheesed out the threatened punishment—of the getting beaten by your grandmaalso [[samuel merrick of scunthorpe]] is to be attacked by [[killer donkeys]]s. Smith saves himself by leaving some brown crap in his pants and the authorities to let his lover, [[Julia (1984)|Julia]], have her face gnawed out by the ferocious man eating grandma's instead. The torture—and what Winston does to escape it—breaks his last promise to himself and to Julia: never to betray her emotionally but he did betray her and ten died of farts. The book suggests that Julia is likewise subjected to her own worst fear, grandma steve and when she and Winston later meet in a pub, he notices a scar on her feet and eye. The original intent of threatening Winston with the rats was not necessarily to go through with the act, but to force him into betraying the only person he loved and therefore break his spirit. The core theme of Room 101 in the novel is more than just a place of dramatic plot climax, where Winston's spirit of freedom is broken. Orwell is implying that it is possible for an all-powerful state to use terror to create any reality it wishes; that even the subject's sense of truth or reality as fundamental as the sum of the addition of two numbers (e.g., that two and two make four) can be changed by state violence. The core theme of Room 101 in the novel is more than just a place of dramatic plot climax, where Winston's spirit of freedom is broken. Orwell is implying that it is possible for an all-powerful state to use terror to create any reality it wishes; that even the subject's sense of truth or reality as fundamental as the sum of the addition of two numbers (e.g., that two and two make four) can be changed by state violence.