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…showed last 75 words of 428 total…nse of physical danger override human reasoning. Winston, facing a swarm of rats prepared to devour his face, cannot act rationally. He is a prisoner of his nervous system, and betraying Julia is his instinctive salvation. Rather than the rats devouring his face Winston says do set them on Julia. Winston became a prisoner of his body. Once he believes his body limits him, he has no reason to think, act, or rebel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**