How many times, or with what system, the Thought Police connected to each single cable was anyone's guess. It was also conceivable that they were watching everyone all the time. But in any case they could connect the cable whenever they wanted. You had to live – and you did live, by habit that became instinct – on the assumption that every sound you made was heard and, except in the dark, every movement was carefully examined” (Orwell 98). The inability of the people to distinguish all these negations strengthens the power of the totalitarian regime. Winston believes the Party cannot control physics; however, O'Brien (Winston's boss) responds to him and summarizes 1984 in the dark statement while torturing Winston: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever" (Orwell 267) to state that the Party controls all reality. Through multiple third-person limited omniscient excerpts in 1984, we glimpse terrifying possibilities of how totalitarianism plays out against an individual; Winston Smith is defeated by the Party due to totalitarianism. Since Orwell is omniscient, he describes things from Winston's point of view, therefore the readers