ght Police. Then, each of the two are incarcerated in the Ministry of Love, with O'Brien supervising/torturing Winston in his 'sanitation.' By means of severe pain and torture, Winston is almost finished with his training and has come to admire O'Brien. After nine months of starvation, neglect, and abuse, the last step requires Winston to go to Room 101, containing Winston's greatest fear: rats. After finishing, he is released, having lost his diary, memories, personality, and love for Julia; he has, however, attained love for Big Brother (resolution), and is now more useless than ever.
             The setting for 1984 is in dirty, dull London, looking more run-down than ever. The Golden Country in Smith's dream, however, is paradise from the frozen-over hell that is London. It cannot be overlooked that London is full of disease, pests, pollution, and hate; basically, it consists of filth, both physical and spiritual. Like many other books of its time, 1984 mentions the loss of independent thought and its outright effects on today's society. It is for that loss that Winston most cherishes his thought and reason. Orwell is also trying to drive home the fact that if it happened with Stalin and Hitler, it most certainly can happen with us, with or without Big Brother. Another major point to be looked at is the 'truth.' Without everybody thinking for themselves, they all tend to rely on a major source for their info. With the Party being that source, that masses have no other to turn to. Thus, they must believe it for their own good. In effect, the Party can churn out any little lie to the public without any fear of not being believed. Without free thinking, there is also no end to the 'war,' yet another Party-fabricated lie. The government has gotten to the point that, without any rules, it can denounce anything and everything it fears as a crime. Anyone seen as independent opposition to the Party's power is efficiently suppressed...