As Winston Smith reaches the last of his punishment, he is placed in Room 101. This is an extreme punishment room, the punishment for your greatest fear. Known as “the worst thing in the world”. Winston has his worst fear, rats, right in front of him and breaks down, he loses the only thing he still loves which is now taken away from him, Julia. This ending is not happy and does not wish anything in Winston's life. Yet is there optimism? To a certain extent, yes. As Winston loses his identity and beliefs, this provides some hope and optimism. Not to Winston but to the public. For readers of 1984, George Orwell, the author of this political novel, wrote this novel to inform and, through this dark ending, he achieved that. Big Brother and the party control everything, they control families, control language, control the media and even control history. This creates total control over a person's every act, thought and belief. Therefore, with Winston it is done this way, so Orwell's point is emphasized. The whole point of this novel is to teach the reader, because during Orwell's life he experienced a lot of things that inspired him for this novel, which makes you think it's possible. for a world like the one Winston lives in. Orwell's inspiration came from leaders such as when the Bolsheviks took control of the Russian Revolution. He also knows European fascism, under Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy. Yet even though many years have passed since the days of totalitarian governments, the book is still very relevant to today's society. The relevance to many different eras in history questions whether the future is capable of such a place. Nearly 60 years after its first publication, these questions are still being asked. This would be due to many factors, including the fact that technology is developing so quickly that the public is afraid of being able to observe people, 1984 style. People might even argue that this is the case, there Most often has a CCTV camera in every corner of the city as well as at train stations and these are only the cameras that we can see. 1984 brings up these frightening possibilities, and if the ending of this novel didn't end like this, would it create such paranoia.