In the climax of 1984 , we hear the whispers of the, “ Room 101.” It seems that everyone knows about this room except for Winston and the person reading the book. Winston sees the prisoners getting pulled one by one to this secretive room. Almost every person they take looks terrified and one person even suggested that he rather witness his family being murdered right in front of his eyes than entering that room. Winston is at the Ministry of Love for what seems like months and he still doesn’t know or have encountered this so called, “Room 101.” While he is there at the Ministry of Love he gets tortured by O’Brien who he thought was an ally not an agent of the Thought Police. When he finally enters the famous Room 101 we learn it is a basement torture chamber that contains the thing we fear the most to break down their resistance. Whenever someone enters the room it is never the same since everyone fears different things, like being buried alive. For Winston his worst nightmare is being in the darkness and huge rats. So waiting for him in that room is a cage filled with large rats and a masked to be placed on his face so he experiences being in the dark alone. When they place the mask on him he can hear the clicks opening the cage filled with rats and he panics. He screams out, “Do it to Julia ! Do It to her!,” realizing that he betrayed her and if he had to chose he would chose himself instead of her. This Romeo and Juliet love story went from forbidden love to betrayal. This shows their love wasn’t as strong as he thought or maybe they were kidding themselves and were never in love.