>the thing that winston cannot stand the most, that makes him abandon all he believes in, is rats
This was a major flaw. This scene does not have the dramatic urgency required to make it believable. Rats?
>>9753115
It's a personal phobia. Big Brother knows all your secret weaknesses.
If you held me over a ledge, I would agree to anything.
>>9753115
I have a similar fear of a certain creature. I would admit to anything if the alternative was being tortured by it. Preferably as fast as I could so that it would not touch me.
The real unbelievable aspect of that scene: they don't tell Winston he's supposed to give up Julia, yet he "does what is required". That is a real stretch. You figure they would ask him to give up Julia first, right? I mean there's no way he could know the party demands that specific response.
>>9753177
Its not that the party wanted the specific response of giving up Julia. Its that they wanted the specific response of breaking down Winston; to make him voluntarily dig inside the centimeters between his ears and deliver to them the very last thing that he would ever hang on to. For Winston, that was giving up Julia.
>>9753115
I always assumed that it was starving rats who would begin to eat his face off once released.
>>9753140
I'm not afraid of rats in general but I think most people would spill the beans quickly if starving rats were about to eat their face. I certainly would.