In 1984, George Orwell writes of a totalitarian society that has manipulated its followers while rewriting the past. Orwell writes of technology that abolishes privacy and is the cause of perpetual fear. This technology is referred to as telescreens. The party of “Big Brother” controls this technology and controls the minds of its party members by a major concept called doublethink. This form of twisted logic is used to manipulate the society and confuse those who …showed first 75 words of 974 total…

…showed last 75 words of 974 total…are both written as facts, yet are complete opposites. Doublethink was “Big Brother’s” way of manipulating his followers, and it is also Orwell’s way of manipulating his readers. Orwell used doublethink as not just a concept, but as a mode of writing. The reader is aware of “Big Brother” controlling a mass of people while at the same time, Orwell is controlling the readers who, unconsciously, find themselves in the throws of 1984 society.