1984 #1

"Within 30 seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ectasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic"(Orwell 14). This quote is a great representation of how much control Big Brother, the Party, the Thought Police, etc..have over the people. Simply through Goldstein speaking through a telescreen, he is capable of changing so many peoples moods and causing them to be angry and upset beyond belief. Just through seeing this, it is difficult to imagine how much the Brotherhood or the Party in general must effect these people and change how they look at life.