Winston cries out in terror asking O’Brien to only tell him what he has to do to avoid this. The rats are starving, they will sense Winston’s helplessness and devour him inch by inch. O’Brien informs him that he is going to open the cages and set the rats onto him. In Winston’s case, his greatest fear, his worst nightmare was rats and it was rats there were there in the cages in front of him. When confronted with that, courage and cowardice lose their meaning, one will do whatever one has to do to avoid the horror in Room 101 as naturally and automatically as one will grab at a rope to keep from falling. For each individual, Room 101 held his greatest fear. For some it may be torture, fire for some one else, drowning for yet others. Impassively, O’Brien explains that what Room 101 contains is quite simply, “the worst thing in the world.” This varies from individual to individual. O’Brien was holding a lever which would operate the cages. In front of him were two tables on which stood two covered wire cages. Winston is confined in Room101, strapped to a chair in a way which rendered him completely immobile.
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