Room 101 is a room introduced in the climax of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. It is a torture chamberin the Ministry of Love, in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia, with the object of breaking down their resistance.
| “ | 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. |
In George Orwell’s novel 1984, there is the Room 101 syndrome: as Terr Eagleton point out.
what Orwell’s protagonist says when a cageful of starved rats are about to burrow through his cheek and devour his tongue must undoubtedly be the truth.
Since most of us who found ourselves in this situation would say anything at all,
the strangeness of this doctrine should give us pause.
Why should truth and extremity be thought to be bedfellows?
So if you are pushed to the extreme you will say anything to stop the pain.
Orwell’s protagonist says when a cageful of starved rats are about to burrow through his cheek and devour his tongue must undoubtedly be the truth. Since most of us who found ourselves in this situation would say anything at all, the strangeness of this doctrine should give us pause. Why should truth and extremity be thought to be bedfellows
Faced with this (below) wouldn't you say anything
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