![]() We don’t know a lot about the Thought Police, and some of what we think we know may actually not be true since some of what Winston learns comes from the Inner Party, and they lie. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. "It was my little daughter," Parsons tells Winston when asked who it was who denounced him. We see how this works when Winston’s neighbor Parsons, an obnoxious Party sycophant, is reported to the Thought Police by his own child, who heard him commit a thought crime while talking in his sleep. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.īig Brother’s tool for doing this is the Thought Police, aka the ThinkPol, who are assigned to root out and punish unapproved thoughts. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. “When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will,” O’Brien (the bad guy) tells the protagonist Winston Smith near the end of the book. Their real goal is to control the gray matter between the ears. They do, of course, but it’s only as a means to an end. ![]() Unlike other 20th-century totalitarians, the authoritarians in 1984 aren’t that interested in controlling behavior or speech. To me, the most terrifying part was that you couldn’t keep Big Brother out of your head. None of this sounds very enjoyable, but it’s not the worst thing in 1984. And there is Winston Smith’s varicose ulcer, apparently a symbol of his humanity (or something), which always seems to be “throbbing.” Gross. Victory Gin and Victory Coffee always sounded particularly dreadful. There are a lot of unpleasant things in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
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