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The novel 1984 by Geore Orwell demonstrates the idea that in this society people live in fear. Fear which the government has embedded into the population to keep them from rebelling and being an individual. Through torture, mind control and the alteration of history the government takes control of everyone and everything in its path.
Being watched every minute of everyday by telescreens and microphones that are placed everywhere. Living with the fear that at any moment you could be arrested for even the slightest look of disloyalty about you and being beaten to the point of death. Torture is used as a way to prevent rebellion and individuality as well as to obtain confessions from thoughtcriminals   as O'Brien says " we have beaten you...,we have broken you up" ( Orwell 286). The party has all of its members participate in an early morning exercise routine every morning which puts them into a state of exhaustion so that they do not have the strength to rebel. Party members are watched every moment of everyday, they are given no privacy whatsoever therfor preventing them from being an individual and expressing themselves because "a single flicker of the eyes could give...[them] away" (39). they live with the fear that at any moment they could be condemned to death for disloyalty. This causes their nervous systems to turn against them and become their greatest enemy. Once a thought criminal is caught they are taken to the ministry of love, there they are beaten until they confess to their thought crimes or until they reach the point of death.They are tortured in room 101 which ".....everybody knows it. The thing that is in room 101 is the worst thing in the world" (296). which creates a sense of fear in the sense of the fact that everybody knows that it is the worst thing in the world , they do not want to end up there so they   cease to have the courage to rebel. The party looks upon torture as a way of curing thought criminals, as O'Brien states " we do not merely...