1984
...ite a shocking matter. For instance when Winston and Julia went over to O’Brien’s home for the first time, O’Brien turned off the telescreen without even thinking about it. Winston was taken aback by this and was so surprised that O’Brien had that power, which O’Brien explained to Winston that he has that privilege (Orwell, 169). Lastly, the telescreen, though the people of Oceania might be deceived, is everywhere. At the end of the novel when Julia and Winston are found above the store, “The picture had fallen to the floor, uncovering the telescreen behind it. ‘Now they can see us,’ said Julia. ‘Now we can see you,’ said the voice (Orwell, 221).” The people that are connected to the telescreen and are able to enter your thought process are The Thought Police. The Thought Police, first introduced in Chapter I, have windows to a comrade’s mind. The people of Oceania that think ideas that go against the party live in fear that the Police will get them and arrest them for a Thoughtcrime. In Chapter I, when Winston finds himself writing “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in his diary he felt a stitch of fear. Although this fear existed did not matter for the reason that, “Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed –would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper- the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime they called it (Orwell, 19).” Another constant fear that the citizens live with is the speculation of who the Thought Police are. When Winston and Julia are taken into custody in Book 2 while looking at Mr. Charrington, “It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police (Orwell, 224).” Henceforth, the tools that provided the Thought Police with the ability to manipulate and enter one’s mind are the language of Newspeak and the principle of Doublethink. Newspeak is the language created by The Party that will keep any thoughts out of comrade’s minds that might question the motives or actions of The Party themselves. Newspeak invades the privacy of the mind because the language does not allow for one to think on their own. For example the Newspeak word, INGSOC, entails all concepts of science and scientific thought. The word prevents the people from thinking scientifically and wondering how things came about ( 26). Doublethink, the other thought principle of The Party. Doublethink molds the mi...