"Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed - no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull" (Orwell 27).
I don't know how these people deal with a life like this. I would probably kill myself rather than living under constant scrutiny. I get mad when my mom doesn't knock on my bedroom door while these people's thoughts are being violated. The few centimeters these people had to themselves in their head must have been really small if they got convicted for thoughtcrimes. Winston seems like the only character in the book (so far) that sees something wrong with this society. He would love to get away but as he says, there is no escape. I think this is foreshadowing to a time when Winston will try & escape. Or he just might speak up against this totalitarian republic.
What is (Madame) Parsons' deal?
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