There is surveillance everywhere and the Thought Police arrest and make people vanish every day. He spends time in districts of the city in which members of the party aren’t supposed to travel and writes in a diary he has to hide from his television ( telescreen). Winston hates his job with the Ministry of Truth and the Party that controls him. He is never seen, but is omnipresent, watching citizens from their TVs, posters, and money.
At the center of the Party is a mysterious figurehead who goes by the name of Big Brother. The Party is totalitarian and demands the allegiance and adoration of its citizens. The novel follows Winston Smith, a thirty-nine-year-old man and a mid-level member of the ruling party of Oceania. It is a dystopian novel that tells the story of Winston Smith and warns of the dangers of a totalitarian government that rules through fear, surveillance, propaganda, and brainwashing.ġ984 by George Orwell opens in April of 1984 in a society that has been ravaged by war and rebuilt under a new government.
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