"Of all the horrors in the world--a rat!" page 144
This quote is from a scene in the novel in which Julia and Winston are in Mr. Charrington's upper room. Julia sees a rat and shoos it away, triggering this response from Winston. This quote, along with Winston's narrated warning about rats eating babies, foreshadows Winston's torture involving hungry rats in the Ministry of Love. In fact, when O'Brien reveals the rats to Winston in the Ministry, he even explains the rats' nature to Winston almost exactly as Winston explains it to the reader. The rats are symbolic for Winston. They are his biggest fear, but they represent the last shred of sanity in his mind. When the door of the cage clicks shut, Winston has officially lost his mind to the Party. He is no longer able to think for himself because he is not himself.
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