How do you get inside someone else’s head? It’s a question at the heart of George Orwell’s 1984, as the protagonists struggle against a system that seems to have brainwashed everyone else. The space inside their heads becomes both a bastion and a battlefield.
As the character Julia says: “They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.” Played by Cynthia Erivo in a new dramatisation from Audible, the words are asked rather than stated, as if she’s trying to convince herself.
