1984 George Orwell 1984 Analysis

1984, George Orwell’s dystopian novel provides subsantial evidence in order to infer the theme of pyschological manipulation. Orwell develops this theme in the book through the Party grasping the minds of the people of Oceania. He does so in various ways that demean them, and break them down to something less than human entirely. The Party and Big Brother manipulate the people of Oceania by changing the past, controlling people’s thoughts, and changing people’s motives; especially Winston’s. Big Brother and the Party were very manipulative, and controlling the past and deleting records was a main element of this. These were key in Orwell’s development of the theme of psychological manipulation. It was evident that this contributed to the Inner Party’s control when Winston had trouble recovering key facts and “could not even remember at what date the Party itself had come into existence” (Orwell 91). Without records of the past, even the most simple data was unreachable. Furthermore, when it was known that a document was due for destruction they would “lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in” (Orwell 94). The Party controlled

The thoughts of the Outer Party and the proles were controlled by the Inner Party in order for all people to love Big Brother. When it came to the military, people were told that “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia”, even though the state had been in various conflicts seen the end of the battle with Eastasia (Orwell 277). These statements made people believe that Oceania was in fact still at war with Eastasia, andd thus their minds were being controlled. Also, the Two Minutes Hate was different each day, but there “was none in whch Goldstein wasn’t the principal figure” (Orwell 13). The Inner Party made the civilians direct their hatred at one person each and every day, essentially brainwashing them to do