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controls your thoughts is with the two minute hate. Even if at first you know what you?re doing, you get caught up in all of the commotion and get excited and angered too. The Thought Police enforce the desired train of thought. Nobody knows who or where they are, what they look like, or when they?ll arrest someone. Even children, like Parsons? kids, can be part of the Thought Police without their own parents knowing. The Thought Police use methods such as torture and force to comprehend one?s thoughts. They use these same methods to compel one to accept the things that the Party says and writes even if you do not believe in them. No matter how little you give credence to what the Party says in the beginning, you eventually come to accept everything. Winston comes to believe that

two plus two equals five. He also learns to consider the following statements as true:WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (7,17, 26, 87, 152, 166) Everyone is under constant surveillance. There are telescreens in the houses and other buildings of every Party and Inner Party member. The following exert displays some of the telescreens? power: Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment…… 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 (6-7). The Proles didn?t have telescreens in their houses or edifice