"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.  Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy.  Nearly all children nowadays were horrible.  What was worst of all was that by such means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the party.  On the conrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it.  The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling with slogans, the worship of Big Brother--it was all a glorious game to them.  All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the States, against the foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.  It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.  And with good reason, for hardly  week past passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak--"child hero" was the phrase generally used--had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police."

In George Orwell's well-acclaimed novel 1984, the character Winston heavily reflects the nature of the nature of this dystopian society. In this passage Winston, a lonely middle-aged man, reflects on the nature of children in this society.  it is a huge contrast to what children are seen as in our eyes.  To all of us childhood is the age of innocence, the age of knowledge.  These years of our lives reflect heavily on the kind of person we will end up for the rest of our lives.  The government ruled by the notorious Big Brother seems to have recognized this and developed a way to integrate the government's message to them.  The government also seems to isolate the children from their parents, which is a hard thing to do in general.  When we are born, we depend heavily on our mothers, they are our world, our center.  Our mothers in return cannot help but love us.

What I found so curious about this passage was the complete change in direction to the common feeling of childhood.  The government has integrated itself so far into the lives of its citizens that it has even destroyed the natural bonds that human beings naturally make.  There is no loyalty.  Children can no longer depend on their parents because they are instructed to be looking after them.  The parents, even though they still love their children, cannot help but feel a complete mistrust with their children which takes away any chance of forming a close relationship.  The view of children has turned completely black, enough for even the narrator to use dirty words, like 'little sneak'.  It is very interesting how Orwell decided to use children as the object of fear; by constructing a world that hates  them the government is making their own loyal subjects from scratch.