I have finally discovered what Room 101 is! It contains "the worst thing". "The worst thing" is different for everyone, since everyone is different, everyone has different fears The worst possible thing for Winston is rats.
After the session he had with O'Brian, after he looked at himself in the mirror, he was sent to another cell, where he was fed, did exercises, and grew stronger. Then one day he screamed for Julia. He had not betrayed her, he still loved her. When he was tortured in the other room and when he was held prisoner in the first cell, he did not really think of Julia because he was in pain. But then he had a hallucination of her, and he was sent to Room 101. There was a mask, an in the mask there was a cage filled with rats. What would happen is that the mask would be placed on Winston's head, the cage would be opened and the rats would devour Winston's face. But in the last possible moment, he screamed that he wanted it to happen to Julia instead of him, that he didn't care what would happen to her, he simply wanted the mask off his head. He screamed it over and over again, and it worked. The goal of Room 101 is not merely to punish one or put him in pain, it is to force one to truly betray those he cares about, to turn one into a selfish monster. When Winston shouted out that he wanted Julia to go through this, not him, he had betrayed her. He turned into an entirely different person, one who believes everything the Party says, one who is subjected to being controlled and overpowered. His childhood memories are false, invented. All that matters is the Party. Winston and Julia have only met once after they were set free. Julia has a scar on her face and she said that she had betrayed Winston. Winston said that he had betrayed her. They had stopped loving each other because they were forced to, they had to for their own selfish survival. At the end of the book, we once again hear the song about the chestnut tree. This song is now much more symbolic. The two people, lovers, have betrayed each other, and now they are incapable of loving each other. Their souls are dead. The final line of the book; "He loved Big Brother", shows that Winston's soul is dead because he has now become like the citizens of Oceania; soulless, powerless, inhuman.
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