Fear is what the Party uses to contain the inhabitants of Airstrip One. If the government makes it so everyone fears them, then it prevents most citizens from getting out of line and rebelling against them. In order to minimize negative behaviour against the Party, they monitor behaviour at all times. This ensures that citizens are afraid to even think negatively against the Party and Big Brother since the authorities always find out. Residents live in a constant state of being monitored by the Party, through the use of advanced technology. Telescreens are not only used to broadcast propaganda, but are used to watch the citizens from one end of the screen. Everywhere they go, the citizens are constantly reminded by the words “BIG BROTHER IS
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A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.” (Orwell 68). Winston would often go sit where he was out of range of the telescreen in his home, and write in his diary, all to avoid looking suspicious as he wrote down his forbidden thoughts. Looking innocent when not is almost impossible due to the fact that the telescreen is delicate enough to detect the beating of a heart. Monitoring behaviour through the use of technology has limitations, which is why the Party monitors the citizen’s thoughts as well. An effective way they accomplish this is by planting average-looking citizens into society, called the “Thought Police”. These people are hired by the government to monitor people when placed into society, and also to monitor all the telescreens, surveillance footage, or audio from planted …show more content…
“It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” (Orwell 10). An individual has to always be aware of what they are doing when out in society – it is the key to their survival if they are truly rebels. “Commitment to the truth of certain statements, and more generally to the notion of truth, is of central importance to the Party.” (Chapman 75). Chapman’s perception is that the Party wants every individual to genuinely accept their version of the truth, and to convince themselves that the Party’s truth is the only truth. Unless a being is not entirely brainwashed with the Party’s truth, they will display rebellious actions subconsciously, and eventually will be caught by the Thought Police. As a continuation of the Thought Police, the Party alters family structure by placing children into an organization called the Junior Spies, which brainwashes them from a young
A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.” (Orwell 68). Winston would often go sit where he was out of range of the telescreen in his home, and write in his diary, all to avoid looking suspicious as he wrote down his forbidden thoughts. Looking innocent when not is almost impossible due to the fact that the telescreen is delicate enough to detect the beating of a heart. Monitoring behaviour through the use of technology has limitations, which is why the Party monitors the citizen’s thoughts as well. An effective way they accomplish this is by planting average-looking citizens into society, called the “Thought Police”. These people are hired by the government to monitor people when placed into society, and also to monitor all the telescreens, surveillance footage, or audio from planted …show more content…
“It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” (Orwell 10). An individual has to always be aware of what they are doing when out in society – it is the key to their survival if they are truly rebels. “Commitment to the truth of certain statements, and more generally to the notion of truth, is of central importance to the Party.” (Chapman 75). Chapman’s perception is that the Party wants every individual to genuinely accept their version of the truth, and to convince themselves that the Party’s truth is the only truth. Unless a being is not entirely brainwashed with the Party’s truth, they will display rebellious actions subconsciously, and eventually will be caught by the Thought Police. As a continuation of the Thought Police, the Party alters family structure by placing children into an organization called the Junior Spies, which brainwashes them from a young