"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear...It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage" (27).
George Orwell included these lines in his novel, 1984, to represent the mood in the book and how things have to be in this civilization. There are people all around all of the time, but each individual is under total scrutiny. No one is allowed to talk to anyone without being overheard, and even thoughts can be interpreted by the overseers. Winston feels like he is all alone because that is how his government wants people to feel. Those who know that the world around them is not right do not have enough nerve to start talking to others about it because there are too many people willing to throw others under the bus to give themselves the advantage. Winston is once again torn between thinking his anti-government thoughts and realizing the truth or living a lie and seeing everything the way "Big Brother" wants him to view it.
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