Nineteen Eighty-Four/Part 1/Chapter 1

thumb|A depiction of Big Brother propaganda. In the first chapter we are introduced to the world of Winston Smith, an ../../Outer Party/ worker in Oceania. The quality of his life is meager, and he is secretly dissatisfied with Big Brother. He buys a diary from a ../../Proletariat/ shop and starts writing in it. This action is considered a "../../Thoughtcrime/", and those accused of it are never seen again. Nobody knows what happens to them. During ../../Two Minutes Hate/, a traitor to the party known as Emmanuel Goldstein appears on the telescreen, and is subject to the hatred of the government workers. For some reason, an ../../Inner Party/ member, O'Brien, catches his eye as someone who's "political orthodoxy was not perfect." Meanwhile, Winston subconsciously writes "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" in his diary, and despairs because the ../../Thought Police/ would find out and punish him.