Topic > Self-Control In 1984 - 1144

Children are among the easiest people to control in this society: “It was almost normal for people over thirty to be afraid of their children. And with good reason, scarcely a week went by without the Times publishing a paragraph describing how some little snitch [. . . ] had heard some compromising remarks and had reported his parents to the Thought Police” (24). By using the children of Oceania the Party manages to simultaneously find more people who might try to rebel and create a new generation of citizens where the only alliance they feel is that towards Big Brother and the Party. The government has suppressed all basic human connections: “The terrible thing the Party has done is to persuade you that simple impulses, simple feelings, are of no importance, and at the same time rob you of all power over the material world” ( 136). The government knows that human nature can overcome the Party's influence, so it encourages the repression of feelings in order to have better control over the population. The bond that Winston and Julia create evolves their contempt for the regime and gives them the courage to fight against the government: “They can't get inside you. If you can feel that it is worth staying human, even when it can have no result, you have beaten them” (138). The Party wants it