The Party in 1984 by George Orwell uses the body to gain total control over the people of Oceania. The body is destroyed in the novel. The Party uses a plethora of outlets for this destruction. It finds a way to completely annihilate all that the human body is. This physical mutilation leads to the destruction of human nature. The process of destruction begins with the removal of pleasure from all things satisfying. If this does not keep a member of Oceania in line the next step would be physical torture. Lastly, it takes the human body in its most natural and raw state and turns it against itself. All of these steps are what lead The Party to gain total control. The process is very necessary in making sure every person is following the party
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This torture takes many forms. One of these forms are fear. The Party instills fear in the minds of the prisoners. This eventually leads to the deterioration of the mind and body. The fear surrounding Room 101 drives this fear in the prison. One prisoner went so far as to say "Do anything to me!...You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!” (Orwell 259). The Party instills this fear of a so called “room 101” as a form of control and torture. Winton has already been reduced to so little and the room is the final straw. He explains all of the horrors he has already endured. Those horrors, in this man’s opinion, can not even amount to whatever torture “Room 101” holds. He is willing to see the murder of his wife and three children before entering this room. The terror it creates is the point of the torture. The actual torture used is not as important as the terror created by the possibilities the room holds. “Because terror is the goal of this torture, it is in no way restrained by the requirements of knowledge and proof. The more horrible it is, the better; thus, “Room 101” simply contains “The worst thing in the world”(Paden 265). The fear surrounding what this room might hold is torture in itself. The unknown is a very scary thing. The fact that this room holds some absolutely horrible unknown makes it that much worse. The torture in prisons were horrible all around. Each different form was as bad as the others. The bodies of these people are
This torture takes many forms. One of these forms are fear. The Party instills fear in the minds of the prisoners. This eventually leads to the deterioration of the mind and body. The fear surrounding Room 101 drives this fear in the prison. One prisoner went so far as to say "Do anything to me!...You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!” (Orwell 259). The Party instills this fear of a so called “room 101” as a form of control and torture. Winton has already been reduced to so little and the room is the final straw. He explains all of the horrors he has already endured. Those horrors, in this man’s opinion, can not even amount to whatever torture “Room 101” holds. He is willing to see the murder of his wife and three children before entering this room. The terror it creates is the point of the torture. The actual torture used is not as important as the terror created by the possibilities the room holds. “Because terror is the goal of this torture, it is in no way restrained by the requirements of knowledge and proof. The more horrible it is, the better; thus, “Room 101” simply contains “The worst thing in the world”(Paden 265). The fear surrounding what this room might hold is torture in itself. The unknown is a very scary thing. The fact that this room holds some absolutely horrible unknown makes it that much worse. The torture in prisons were horrible all around. Each different form was as bad as the others. The bodies of these people are