Peter+significant+passage

==== Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig iron and the overfulfillment of the Ninth Three Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. 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. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. ==== ==== This passage is important to the book because it tells you about the main problem, the government watching you. Throughout the whole book that is the main thing that made Winston want to rebel and overthrow the government, because they could be watching you at any time. You had to be careful whenever you talked because if you said something that the thought police might get suspicious about they would send you to The Ministry of Love where you would be tortured until your thoughts agreed with the government's thoughts. I chose this passage because it is very significant to the idea of censorship in the story and how they managed to censor peoples thoughts and actions. ====