Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite history and adapt it to fit the official version. Telescreens flash propaganda messages 24 hours a day, spying nonstop on every individual. Newspeak has stripped language of all subversive nuance, reducing it to a means of conveying information. And keeping watch over all of society is Big Brother, the very embodiment of surveillance and totalitarian oppression. 1984: a monstrous, well-oiled machine, that devours men and all their thoughts, a machine that nothing can stop.