Subversive government control ensures the oppression and subjugation of all individuals, restricting personal liberties. Orwell’s trepidation on government control is established in 1984 through the menacing presence of surveillance to suppress the people. Through the exploration of Winston’s metaphoric assertion, “… nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres in your skull”, Orwell highlights the ominous presence of the contestant government control to provide the perpetual image of an autocratic regime under Stalinism that supressed individuals as a means to maintain of power. The impact that government control has in 1984 is evident through an exploration of Winston at the culmination of his brutality in Room 101 where he asserts