Editing 1984 (section)

== Plot ==
[[File:Winston smith rat torture.jpg|right|300px|thumb| [[skaven|YES. YES. ME PUNISH FOOLISH-SCARED NO FUR. CRY-TEAR AT ME MAN-THING!!]]]]
In [[Hive|Airstrip One, Oceania]], a middle-aged member of [[Administratum|the Ministry of Truth]], Winston Smith, isn't happy about his life.  He's sick of doing the same thing every day; helping the government spread their propaganda, being exhausted at work, his home life dominated by his telescreen (pretty much "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, TV WATCHES YOU!", and woe betide anyone who breaks or turns theirs off), never getting laid (except for a far back encounter with an elderly prostitute; P.S prostitution is illegal here but is a crime that the state does not actually care much about) and not having enough to eat. But his life changes when he meets his co-worker, twenty-something brunette Julia. Despite coming across as a model citizen, even being a member of the [[Sisters of Cleaning|anti-sex league]], Julia gives him a secret message which says "I love you." After meeting her outside their work, they talk and both decides to [[Heresy|give each other what they want]], which is something the party considers [[Blam|unacceptable]].  Winston has a fun time [[Slaanesh|fucking Julia]], [[Tzeentch|learning about the past]], [[Nurgle|eating the real food the upper class gets]] and [[Khorne|writing in his notebook about how much he hates The Party]]. During this time, Winston's co-worker O'Brien introduces himself as a member of the secret anti-government Brotherhood and recruits Winston and Julia.  

O'Brien gives them a book on the Brotherhood's ideals and instructions to continue their affairs until called on by them. They do, making the inn where they had their first tryst their secret getaway. After a sex session, they start reading up on the Brotherhood (which can be summed up as idealist English Socialism). During a later tryst, they are arrested by the [[Inquisition|Thought Police]], who had been spying on their room the whole time through a telescreen hidden behind a painting (the innkeeper is revealed to be an undercover Thought Police commander). They are beaten and taken to the Ministry of Love to be brainwashed. There, Winston is reunited with O'Brien, [[Just as Planned|and finds out that O'Brien is actually a top-level government agent; his "recruitment" of Winston and Julia, and maybe even the Brotherhood itself, was a sting operation]]. O'Brien [[Dark Eldar|tortures Winston almost to death]] while also gaslighting him, then when Winston starts to succumb to the brainwashing O'Brien nurses him back to health. Then O'Brien finds out from surveillance of Winston talking in his sleep that he still loves Julia and hates Big Brother.  So O'Brien sends him to the dreaded Room 101 to meet his worst fear.
 
Room 101 is where the party torture their victims with their worst fear, which is figured out through near-constant scrutiny since childhood, meaning the party may have already had Winston as well as everyone in their grip: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past". In Winston's case, his greatest fear is rats, because he found his house full of rats after his mother and sister's disappearance and assumed the rats ate them (note that back in the day, London - which is called Airstrip One in the book, had rat problems so bad that civilians would die from either the diseases they spread or just straight up eaten by its swarm if they encountered one and couldn't fight them off). Using this fear, O'Brien put a metal cage-like device with rats inside next to Winston's head (see picture on the right), [[Skaven|threatened to let the rats eat his face]] and ultimately mind broke the poor Winston.

Months after being successfully brainwashed by the party Winston meets Julia again, who is also brainwashed, and both are uncertain about their futures and no longer love each other (it's also implied that Julia was lobotomized). In the end Winston despairs so much he cannot even commit suicide, believes that [[derp|2+2=5]], and loves [[God-Emperor of Mankind|the Party's figurehead leader, Big Brother]].

And ''that's'' when he is finally shot, or not. You see, all that torture the party has done to Winston only killed his "self", meaning he no longer exists as a thinking individual. He exists only as a puppet of the Party, forever selfless, forever loving Big Brother.  While the party threatens to murder Winston with a single shot from a gun, they never did.

Winston's self is the part that makes him human and unique — it essentially is Winston. And now that it is dead, he waits only for his [[Necron|soulless shell of a body]] to die as well, drinking gin in a cafe without actually feeling anything.