"Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom" (63-64).George Orwell, in the novel 1984, depicts an environment where thoughts or any facial features can easily be interpreted. Eyes are everywhere and no one ever really knows who is watching and at what time of day. Private thoughts are no longer private and any sign of some sort of thought process can lead a person to a life of pain. Orwell includes this idea of a one's nervous system being his own enemy to describe to the reader exactly what the characters must endure day in and day out throughout the novel.
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