Big Brother Is Watching You Rhetorical Analysis

hem easier to control. The primary goal of the World State is social stability, and they are more than willing to sacrifice individuality for it.

This ideology is very similar to that of the Party, but still quite different. The World State controls its citizens by keeping them content and busy, while the Party controls the population through fear. They have methods of monitoring people that are set up so that, hypothetically, the Party could be watching them at all times. This panoptical nature of society is what inspired the common slogan plastered on posters around Oceania, “Big Brother is watching you” (Huxley 3). If someone is caught doing something that goes against the Party’s ideology, or even just thinking it, they are taken by the Thought Police and

Common punishments include torture, imprisonment, killing, and vaporization, which is when the Party eradicates all traces of a person. The Party has such an unfathomably huge amount of power that people have no choice but to obey their rules. Since their main goal is power, they want their citizens to be as easy to control as possible, which is why they have rules that forbid most acts of individuality. O’Brien, an Inner Party member, tells Winston, the main character, about The Party’s future plans, “In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy—everything” (Huxley 336). Individual rights are not important to the Party. In fact, neither individuals nor rights of any kind are important to the Party, only power. Immense, unchecked power, as much of it as they can get. That is why they humiliate their citizens and treat them so poorly: to prove their power over them. The Party keeps its citizens in line through sheer power and fear, which differs from how the World State does the same thing. The Party keeps their citizens in a constant state of fear and submission to the Party’s dominance,