Winston is held in a cell where he knows he will be beaten to the point of betraying his love, but he does not quite understand how exactly they will do it to him. A man next to him was arrested for failing to remove “God” from a piece of writing is soon dragged off to “Room 101”, the worst torture chamber in existence, where unimaginable pain and misery lies.
O’Brian walks in, to which Winston thought meant that he was captured, but soon learns (or more admits) that O’Brian was always for the thought police, and just undercover to help capture Winston and Julia.
Through Torture O’Brian convinces Winston that logic does not matter; only what the party deems as truth matters. Winston only holds out in one field, and that field is for his love of Julia. He did not ever go against her, and decided that he would not, no matter what.
O’Brian tells Winston not to worry, for soon enough he will break and abandon his love for his girlfriend. Winston is soon after taken to Room 101, where his face is put into a box with rabid rats on the opposite side. O’Brian basically gives him the option of either letting the rats eat his face or having Julie do it in his stead. Winston breaks, and is then sufficiently broken and set free.
The final chapter of 1984 has Winston sitting in a coffee shop, hollow and completely broken in mind. He does see Julie, but they can no longer be love each other, for they knew they had betrayed each other in spirit.
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