How often, or on what system, the Thought Police connected on an individual wire was only a guess. It was even conceivable that they were watching everyone all the time. But in any case, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted. You had to live – you lived, by habit becoming instinct – on the assumption that every sound you made was heard and, except in the dark, every movement was scrutinized” (Orwell 98). The inability of the people to distinguish all these negations reinforces the power of the totalitarian regime. Winston believes that the Party cannot control physics; however, O'Brien (Winston's boss) responds to him and sums up the year 1984 in the dark statement as he tortures Winston: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever" ( Orwell 267). ) to declare that the Party controls all of reality. Through multiple third-person limited omniscient excerpts in 1984, we get a glimpse of the terrifying possibilities of how totalitarianism occurs against an individual; Winston Smith is defeated by the Party because of totalitarianism. Since Orwell is omniscient, he describes things from Winston's point of view so that readers