Room 101

The room where the Ministry of Love inflicts its worst torture subjecting you to whatever you fear the most.


There is no doubt that Room 101 represents a person's worst fears. But, more that, it also represents the subjectivity of every single thing in every human action or thought, the subjectivity driven by fear. The power that governments have by driving people through fear.

"That is, fear appeals rely on a threat to an individual’s well-being that motivates him or her toward action, e.g., increasing control over a situation or preventing an unwanted outcome."
Do you think that fear enough to give up and betray our beloved ones? Is fear enough to convince a whole world and each person on it on what must they do? Is fear that enough that we just do what we are supposed to do because there might be consequences? Are those consequences enough to keep the world moving as it has been doing so? 

and the most important: Have you ever thought that fear drives the world already?

In the classroms, at home, when we want to meet our boyfirnd's or girlfriend's mother, when we want other to have a good impression of us, when we want to pass a course, etc. Many things that we do and the way we behave is just because of FEAR.

What do you think that would have happened to Winston if he overcame his fear?
Probaly nothing else would have been a probem to him anymore because he would be stronger. Once you fight a fear nothing else seems to matter anymore.
"The use of fear appeals is common in many types of marketing communications. "

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
(FEAR HIM)

                         

"[...] there seemed to be no color in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black mustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own." 

Many rulers in history have used fear, the third reich was build on a basis of nationalism, racism and fear. Two secret police forces were created during the reich named: the Gestao and the SS, which were similar to vision of police in 1984.

But the reason why governments make us fear them is because they fear us too:

"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. " p.16
The only way  in which Partys can deal with subversive people is making them disappear, and subsequently, removing them from history altogether because of FEAR. As if they were saying: "If they don't fear us, let's make them disappear, or we will suffer the consequences"


What's your room 101?






C. Williams, Kaylene . "Fear appeal theory." Research in Business and Economics Journal 6 (2012): 1.


Orwell, George. Nineteen eighty-four.  Ed. Erich Fromm.  New York: Harcourt, 1949.