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| {{About|the room mentioned in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four|the TV series of the same name|Room 101 (TV series)|the radio series|Room 101 (radio series)}} | |||
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| '''Room 101''' is a place introduced in the novel '']'' by ]. It is a ] in the ] in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst ], fear or ]. | |||
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| {{cquote2|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.|]}} | |||
| Such is the purported ] of the ] in the society of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that even a citizen's nightmares are known to the Party. The nightmare, and therefore the threatened punishment, of the protagonist ] is to be attacked by ]s. Smith saves himself by begging the authorities to let his lover, ], have her face gnawed by the ferocious rodents instead. The torture, and what Winston does to escape it, breaks his last promise to himself and to Julia: never to betray her emotionally. The book suggests that Julia is likewise subjected to her own worst fear, and when she and Winston later meet in a park, he notices a scar on her forehead. The original intent of threatening Winston with the rats was not necessarily to go through with the act, but to force him into betraying the only person he loved and therefore break his spirit. | |||
| Orwell named Room 101 after a conference room at ] where he used to sit through tedious meetings.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Real Room 101 |publisher=BBC |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/room-101.shtml |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070105132434/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/room-101.shtml |archivedate=5 January 2007}}<br>Meyers, Jeffery. ''Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation''. W.W.Norton. 2000. ISBN 0-393-32263-7, p. 214.</ref> When one of the possible original room 101s at the BBC was due to be demolished, a plaster cast was made by artist ]. The cast was displayed in the ] of the ] from November 2003 until June 2004.<ref>{{cite web| title= BBC Broadcasting House – Public Art Programme 2002–2008| url=http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/resources/reports/artistcommissions/bbc_broadcasting_house.php| accessdate= 2009-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| first=Richard| last =Brooks| title= Orwell’s room 101 to be work of art|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1122272.ece|work=The Sunday Times| location= London| date= 23 March 2003| accessdate= 2009-05-18}}</ref> | |||
| ==Cultural impact== | |||
| The novel's popularity has resulted in the term "Room 101" being used to represent a place where unpleasant things are done. According to ]'s book '']'', ], the last Minister of State Security (]) of the former ], had the floors of the Stasi headquarters renumbered so that his second floor office would be number 101.<ref>{{cite news | accessdate=2008-02-02| date=18 June 2004| url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/anna-funder-inside-the-real-room-101-732525.html| title=Anna Funder: Inside the real Room 101|work=The Independent| location=London| first1=Sholto| last1=Byrnes| first2=Boyd| last2=Tonkin}} (Profile of ] and her book, '']'')</ref> | |||
| On the BBC TV show '']'', celebrities are interviewed and asked to list their ], which are then condemned to the unseen room, or not, at the discretion of the host. Since 2012 the show is hosted by Frank Skinner and guests compete to have their pet hates and peeves consigned to Room 101. | |||
| In the ] of ], a housemate was required to enter a Room 101 to complete tedious and unpleasant tasks, including sorting different colours of ]. | |||
| ===In Fiction=== | |||
| The concept of a "Room 101" has also entered into many fictional works. | |||
| In the movie '']'', the number on the door of Neo's appartment is 101 ; just after the number has been shown, he says he is not sure whether he is dreaming or not. | |||
| In '']'', the physical location of Room 101 (and the Ministry of Love) is given as the ] headquarters at ]. | |||
| In the ] movie '']'', when Beatrix Kiddo gets to Bills apartment the door number is 101. | |||
| One sketch on ] involved the hapless residents of room 102, the ] repair center. They were greatly inconvenienced by some of the more irrational fears, like killer whales, and suspicious of the number of people who claimed their "worst fear" was sex. | |||
| In the video game "]", the character comes from Vault 101, where people live and are unaware of the outside world. | |||
| In "]", Season 3, Episode 4, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant play a game called "Room 102," which they based on the concept of "Room 101," where Karl Pilkington had to decide what things he dislike enough to put in Room 102. This would result, according to their game, of these things being erased from existence. Ricky decided, as per their rules of this game, whether Karl's choices merited inclusion in "Room 102" and thus eradication. Karl chose slugs, people who did not reach their full potential (or as he put it, "brains that don't want to do what their owners are good at"), and people who think humans are special. Ricky spared the slugs, but put the people who didn't full potential in "Room 102." Then they wandered off the subject, leaving the "humans are special" people undecided. | |||
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