‘The Thought Police’ feature in which 1949 novel?
Thought Police criticising the prevailing ideas of British society often placed Orwell in conflict with ideologues, people advocating "smelly little orthodoxies". In the story, the Thought Police conduct false-flag operations (e.g. The Brotherhood) to lure non-conformist members of the Party to expose themselves as politically subversive. In the year 1984, the government of Oceania, dominated by the Inner Party, use the Newspeak language to control the speech, actions, and thought of the population, by defining "unapproved thoughts" as "thoughtcrime" and "crimethink"; for such actions, the "Thinkpol" arrest Winston Smith, the protagonist of the story, and Julia, his girlfriend, as enemies of the
Thought Police to the actual or perceived enforcement of ideological orthodoxy in the political life of a society. Thought Police In the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police ("Thinkpol") are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish "thoughtcrime", personal and political thoughts unapproved by the Party. The Thinkpol use criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance (telescreens, microphones, informers) to search for and find, monitor and arrest all citizens of Oceania who would commit "thoughtcrime" in challenge to the "status quo" authority of the Party and the regime of Big Brother. George Orwell's concept of "thought