Winston Smith, himself, is a cog in the State’s machine. Orwell’s State works through oppressive surveillance and by controlling the political message. In both novels the regime has the means by which assumed reality is controlled. In Nineteen Eighty-Four reality is controlled by the Party to exact total obedience to the State’s figurehead, Big Brother. There is a repressive regime, the memory police of the title, that has an agenda to control its population. The Memory Police has themes in common with other dystopian fiction like Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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