Equality believes he has made a deal with the criminal and has decided to embark on a personal crusade to restore individualism to his world. Equality is also intelligent, he invents electricity and the light bulb. Equality, however, must obtain approval of the invention from the world council. If the invention is discovered before approval, Equality is subject to execution and his invention destroyed. Winston and Equality are two characters obsessed with the past and history in general, both of whom would like to know how the world worked before their parties took control. Winston in particular is obsessed with the past before the party and Big Brother. Winston has memories of the past, but he remembers them only vaguely and they are just out of his reach. Equality is also concerned with the past, but more narrowly than Winston. Equality simply wants to know about the individualism of the past and how such views can improve its ideals. In Winston's world there is no privacy. The party that governs Oceania monitors everywhere, in the streets and in people's homes. The party also has the thought police; A