The Thought Police

The thought police are mentioned in chapters one and two in the book 1984. The thought police were there to monitor the societys thoughts or actions through out the day. It is significant to Winston in these chapters because he hated them alot. "Thus at the moment Winston's haterd was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonley, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies" (page 16). When I first read the idea of Winston hating them and rebelling I was not surprised. Most people in society would dissagree with someone you never met before watching your every move. People never knew when the Thought Police were watching them, they could just plug into any wire and see what society was doing at any given point. "How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to" (page 6).