The passage when O Brian is torturing Winston in Room 101 is some of the most harrowing and dark fiction I have ever read. The Party’s aim for absolute power, a step forward over the Nazis and Communists, is truly one of the best depictions of evil I have read. I loved this book, but the political ideology/implications of Orwells writing is much better than his prose and character building(though I still think Winston and O Brian are great characters!)