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So now our government and police decide to enforce Chinese policy on the streets of London. Protesters were beaten, wrestled to the ground, imprisoned. I watched with dismay, disbelief and out and out feelings of revulsion. Orwell was right.
Nineteen Eighty-Four introduces Oceania, one of the world's three intercontinental totalitarian super-states. The story occurs in London, the "chief city of Airstrip One",[4] itself a province of Oceania that "had been called England or Britain".[5] Posters of "Big Brother", the Party leader, with the caption BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, dominate the city landscapes; two-way television (the telescreen) dominates the private and public spaces of the populace.