Thought Police

First, explaining the diary. All Winston did when it came to the diary was write his feelings and emotions. The only intention Winston had with the diary was in hopes of showing it to O’Brien who, he thought, was part of The Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is a rebellious group made up by The Party to lure out traitors. As for O’Brien, Winston stated, “He knew, with more certainty than before, that O’Brien was on his side. He was writing the diary for O’Brien…

While they have been lovemaking and conversing, Mr.Charrington, a member of the Thought Police, has been listening and watching. Both of them are separated and tortured. Winstons is taken to room 101 where he is broken with his greatest fear, being gnawed by rats. After his terror, O’Brien works on Winston until he becomes brainwashed,…

is gradually being violated and eroded without [them] noticing “ (Young people give up privacy… 4 ). This makes the protagonist find any chance to rebel at all, Winston gains or remains his sense of rebellion from by thinking or writing Anti-Party thoughts in secret. Though, if for a some mystical reason in which telescreens were not invented, or the sole purpose of observing people, Big Brother would be completely useless, due to the fact, that he has no other methods to control his subjects.…

A government with total control over its people is something all capitalists fear. In George Orwell’s 1984, he perfectly portrays the effects of government control in his dystopian society. Orwell’s warnings concerning government control are becoming quite evident in today’s society. In the novel 1984, the main setting is Oceana, a futuristic England. Orwell’s Oceana “portrays a future totalitarian world, ruled by a seemingly, omnipotent tyrant called Big Brother” (Perloff 27). The Party is a…

reclaim the past, and, with his lover Julia, “rebels” in sex and their “secret” meetings. Winston becomes infatuated with the past items seen in Mr. Charrington's shop. At the end, Winston and Julia are caught by Mr. Charrington and the other Thought Police members and they are taken to Room 101 where they are fixed to love Big Brother, the leader of the Party. Evolving symbols in 1984 contribute to…

purposes. In Chapter 3, Book 2, Winston says, “The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account,” (Orwell, 168). The reason that the Party’s suppresses sex and other intimate pleasurable acts is in order to stop the thoughts of desire—a thoughtcrime. The Party cannot afford to have their citizens devoted to a significant other since it takes away from their affection for Big Brother. Not only is the Party trying to suppress conscious thoughtcrime, but Orwell…

Any government has absolutely no right to spy on their own citizens. Whether is the United States, or the totalitarian government of 1984, Spying on innocent citizens should not be permitted. the act of spying is limited by law, threatens democracy, and illegally obtained evidence can be used to incriminate someone unfairly. It has been 230 years since the United States constitution was signed, yet the government still follows the law of the land. The right of privacy was established when…

this is defying a ban on individuality but with all of the secrets that Winston knows that lie in Oceania, he is truly alone in his society mentally. Throughout the novel he undercoverly decides that he is going to express his thought in a personal journal since the thought police do not want to hear anything negative…

The world of American politics is a complicated, tricky system that can easily be manipulated and in the novel 1984 George Orwell shows what that world would look like if that manipulation was taken to an extreme. Theodore Roosevelt once said: “A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.” and in the fictional country of Oceania they did just that and then some. Oceania is governed by Big Brother who has complete control of everything that happens…

Inner Party’s absolute invasion of personal privacy, while at the same time their embrace of nationalism. In addition to Big Brother, the Party maintains control over society through telescreens which can monitor citizens at any time, and the Thought Police, the agents and policemen of the Inner Party whom carry out their every will, punishing whoever has committed a crime against them. “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment” (Orwell 2). In…