"Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell

In his book Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell portrays a bleak world in which "the party" holds complete and utter control. To assure their ability of maintaining power, this ruling elite has developed methods to eliminate dissent and impose complete uniformity of opinion upon its people. It was Stephen King who said, "The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window". Applied to Nineteen Eighty-Four, worship of the godlike figure King speaks of could be symbolized by the party's corporeal representation of itself, known as Big Brother. The act of tossing logic out the window could be likened to Doublethink, a mental technique that is taught to all members of Oceanic society. …