 O'Brien (seen here played by André Morell in the 1954 television adaption), a secret Thought Police agent The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) is the secret police in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is the job of the Thought Police to uncover and punish thoughtcrime and thought criminals, using psychology and omnipresent surveillance from telescreens to find and eliminate members of society who were capable of the mere thought of challenging ruling authority. The government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labeling unapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime, or, in Newspeak, crimethink. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 41 KB)Screen capture from Nineteen Eighty-Four, uploaded by Angmering to illustrate that article. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 41 KB)Screen capture from Nineteen Eighty-Four, uploaded by Angmering to illustrate that article. ...
André Morell as OBrien in the 1954 BBC Television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...
André Morell as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59). ...
Peter Cushing played Winston Smith while Donald Pleasence played Syme. ...
Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...
This article is about secret police as organizations. ...
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. ...
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia[1], kakotopia or anti-utopia) is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (commonly written as 1984) is a dystopian novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in 1949. ...
In George Orwells dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labeling unapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime or, in Newspeak, crimethink. In the book, Winston Smith, the main character, writes in his diary...
Psychology is an academic or applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes such as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. ...
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. ...
Big Brothers face looms on giant telescreens in Victory Square Telescreens are featured in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...
Personification of thought (Greek Εννοια) in Celsus Library in Ephesos, Turkey Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. ...
It also had much to do with Orwell's own "power of facing unpleasant facts", as he called it, and his willingness to criticise prevailing ideas which brought him into conflict with others and their "smelly little orthodoxies". Although Orwell described himself as a democratic socialist, many other socialists thought that his criticism of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin damaged the socialist cause. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...
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In the early part of the Twentieth Century, Japan actually had Thought Police. [1]
The term "Thought Police", by extension, has come to refer to real or perceived enforcement of ideological correctness, or pre-emptive policing where a person is apprehended in anticipation of the possibility that they may commit a crime, in any modern or historical contexts.
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- ^ "The TOKKO (Special Higher Police, or thought police) was the civilian branch whose duty it was to enforce the idea of proper thought." [1]
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