Psychological Adoleure In Big Brother By George Orwell

Through its effective psychological manipulation tactics, Big Brother, also known as The Party, destroys all sense of independence and individuality . Everyone wears the same plain clothes, eats the same nasty food, and lives in the same dirty apartments. Life is uniform and orderly. No one can stand out, and no one can be unique. To have an independent thought would make you commit a thought crime that creates you into a criminal. For this reason, writing such as Winston does in his diary has been outlawed. People are only permitted to think what the Party tells them to think, which leads to what Syme refers to as "duckspeak" (Orwell 129). Independent thought can be dangerous, as it might lead to rebellion.
This theme comes to a head during Winston 's prolonged torture, when Winston argues that he is a man, and because he is a man O 'Brien cannot tell him what he thinks. O 'Brien counters that if Winston is a man, he is the last man on earth. Moreover, O 'Brien suggests that this independence is evidence of

This includes the telescreens that are found all around their society. The telescreen in Smith’s world is “like a dulled mirror” which cannot be turned off (Orwell 3). It offers no pleasure, only painful calisthenics and dull statistics. They are found where he works, in public squares, and they are most vigilant in lavatories (Lyons 40). They are deathly silent, but the voice is worse, for it “seemed to stick into his brain like jagged splinters of glass” (Orwell 102).
Technology is an extremely important tool that the Party uses to maintain control over its citizens. Without telescreens, the Thought Police would not be nearly as effective, and propaganda would not be so widespread. The constant supervision of the telescreen effectively imprisons citizens of Oceania in their daily lives: they are always under close