Book 2 Chapter 7-10

" A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behavior towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he alone" (210-211).


I thought that this part of the passage was pretty interesting because you can see how all of the thoughts that Winston had since the beginning of the story was basically reality. As he was reading the book I noticed how all of the things that were being said were thoughts that Winston had or that I thought as I was reading the story. I thought it was kind of weird to see the whole system being described very detailed, with all the details you can see how this system is working and is really hard to get around because there is basically a counter to any type of rebel that could ever exist. The type of relationship that this passage is going to have to the rest of the story is that now that Winston has the book and is reading more in-depth to the type of world that he is currently living in. The thought police are going to have more involvement with Winston as we saw at the end of Chapter 10. It seems that Winston still has a specific spot to read from the book that he never got to and I think once he reads that part he will feel more confident on what he has to do next. One thing that this specific part of the passage reminded me was how they were always being watched no matter what they were doing. I think that this type of system where you are always being watched shouldn't be used in any type of system because people should be able to express themselves and have privacy whenever they want.