- "Seven years it must be - he had dreamed that he was walking through a pitch-dark room. And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: 'We shall meet in the place where there is darkness.'" (p. 25)
'We shall meet in the place where there is darkness' was first spoken by O'Brien in a dream Winston had. Sure enough, these haunting words foreshadow what will happen in the future. Orwell carefully chooses a specific language to create a mysterious, evil atmosphere, repeating Winston's dream of meeting O'Brien. Eventually Winston does meet O'Brien in the Ministry of Love where his cell is pitch black. Darkness connotes negative, secretive ideas, and clearly, Winston undergoes unnecessary torture and manipulation when he finally faces O'Brien.
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