The
telescreen symbolizes the complete control
that the state has over every aspect of its citizens'
lives. It's like an
all-seeing eye that keeps the subjects of this gigantic slave-state under
constant surveillance, watching their every move for the merest signs of subversion
and
rebelliousness. But the telescreens, though deeply invasive of one's
personal privacy, are
unable to read people's thoughts:
He thought of the
telescreen with its
never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept
your head you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness they had never mastered
the
secret of finding out what another human being was thinking.
There may be a limit to what the telescreens can
do, but there's no limit to what the
state can do. Asobserves in the same
passage, when you're in the regime's hands it's a different
story; the
authorities can indeed read what's on your mind, or at least appear to.
Winston
speculates about the methods of physical
and...
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