Discuss what the impression conveyed by Orwell of the Parsons children and their mother's reaction to them tells us about the society of 1984.

An important motif that emerges in the first three chapters of 1984 is that of urban decay. Under the supposedly benign guidance of the Party, London has fallen apart. Winston's world is a nasty, brutish place to live-conveniences are mostly out of order and buildings are ramshackle and unsafe. In contrast to the broken elevator in Winston's rundown apartment building, the presence of the technologically advanced telescreen illustrates the Party's prioritization of strict control and utter neglect of citizens' quality of living.

Winston's encounter with the Parsons children in Chapter II demonstrates the Party's influence on family life. Children are effectively converted into spies and trained to watch the actions of their parents with extreme suspicion. The fear Mrs. Parsons shows for her children foreshadows Winston's encounter in jail with her husband, who is turned in to the Party for committing thought crime by his own child. Orwell was inspired in his creation of the Junior Spies by a real organization called Hitler Youth that thrived in Nazi Germany. This group instilled a fanatic patriotism in children that led them to such behaviors as monitoring their parents for any sign of deviation from Nazi orthodoxy, in much the same manner that Orwell later ascribed to the Junior Spies.

(2) "The Party is a totalitarian government. Neither the Outer Party nor the proles (proletariat) have any influence on the direction of their country or the rules that govern their lives. The Inner Party manipulates the media and infiltrates citizens' private lives to gain complete control over every aspect of human existence, including love and sex. When the propaganda, deprivation, and rigid guidelines fail to convert someone to Party doctrine (INGSOC), the government uses torture to brainwash citizens."

Mrs. Parsons, although the term Mrs. is pretty much irrelevant in 1984 as sex is only used to "serve as a purpose" as to produce more members, but Mrs. Parsons is a women who struggles to contain her kids, and can be seen as representing women of all 1984 and in the fact that she can't raise her kids properly, so Big brother does it for her

1984 is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in the West of the dangers of totalitarian government. Having witnessed firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarian governments in Spain and Russia would go in order to sustain and increase their power, Orwell designed 1984 to sound the alarm in Western nations still unsure about how to approach the rise of communism.

(3)"In 1984, Orwell portrays the perfect totalitarian society, the most extreme realization imaginable of a modern-day government with absolute power. The title of the novel was meant to indicate to its readers in 1949 that the story represented a real possibility for the near future: if totalitarianism were not opposed, the title suggested, some variation of the world described in the novel could become a reality in only thirty-five years. Orwell portrays a state in which government monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that even having a disloyal thought is against the law."

After learning about Parsons Children the reader becomes well aware of 1984 society and people's attitude towards it, the children are proof that Big Brother is getting stronger, although there are still faults in the system, as Winston and Julia prove later on in the novel.