What would be in my room 101? In the book 1984, Winston is terrified of rats and views them as behemoths. This makes his worst nightmare an easy thing to realize. But, I don't have any fears or anathemas like that. I know people who are afraid of heights and needles. I have friends with arachnophobia and ornithophobia. But me? In order for someone to accost me severely enough to make me turn on my loved ones and accept Big Brother they'd have to be able to invoke this same kind of fear. So, how? Even more, if they did think of something to terrorize me with, who would they want me to betray? My family? I really don't have any idea how The Party would break me.
Even if they did find a way to torment me and force me to turn on my loved ones, would I really give up and accept Big Brother in my life the way Winston did? I mean, Winston wasn't even a person by the time he left. He was a mindless drone with no thoughts of his own; he was nothing. Is it really that easy to break a person?
(This is completely unrelated but I just wanted to mention somewhere that every time I think of the title of the book, 1984, I think of the song "1985" and immediately start singing.)
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