Parsons requesting some help with a clogged drain. In addition to the familiar smell of boiled cabbage shared by the building Winston finds that the Parsons'
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09-Aug-1982 Philosophical Studies 45 (1984) 95-142. ... To develop the theory of nuclear relations Parsons introduces the notion of plugging.
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Who are the Parsons, and what do they represent in 1984? In 1984, the Parsons are Winston's neighbors in Victory Towers. They represent the average family in Oceania. The Parsons' children, who inform on their father to the authorities, represent the degree to which family loyalties have been replaced by loyalty to the Party.
The Parsons are a family of four—a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter—who live in an apartment near Winston 's. Mr. Parsons also works with Winston at the Ministry of Truth. Winston describes him as
Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms -- one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.
Loyalty to one's family has been replaced by loyalty to the Party. The Parsons represent what is supposed to be the middle class since they are in an apartment. In his depiction of them, George Orwell demonstrates how the basic unit of society, the family, has had its structure destroyed and traditional values subverted.