Review your work on George Orwell’s 1984. Central Idea

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Orwell’s 1984 Central Idea
Orwell’s 1984 is a post-world war II novel written shortly after the Atomic Wars. The writer exposes the horrific World War II aftermaths through his own political beliefs. The story reflects Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union. It additionally portrays Big Brother, the book’s dictator, as a Stalin look-a-like. Oceania’s totalitarian super-state subjects its citizens to wildly shifting and tense political climates through constant surveillance, depicting a dystopian and miserable future for the citizens. Orwell explores psychological manipulation, the central idea of 1984, to expose how the natives of Oceania are both functionally and mentally imprisoned, hence bringing out the conflict between the Oceania totalitarian political state and individuals’ intellectual autonomy. To achieve psychological control in his characters, he uses the government’s technological abundance and physical influence.
The party bombards its people with mental motives craftily outlined to overwhelm their minds’ capacities for independent thoughts. In every person’s room is a giant spy camera that blasts a relentless stream of propaganda meant to elevate the party’s failures and shortcomings and make them appear as triumphant accomplishments. This presents sheer psychological manipulation as the citizens cannot make up their minds about the party independently. The mental control disguised as security cameras constant messages and propaganda trick the citizens into believing that the party is indeed doing great while, in reality, the entire Oceania will be much better without it. Besides, the security cameras not only exhibit manipulative content but also observe the citizens’ conduct everywhere. Wherever they go, they cannot escape the omnipresent warnings that the government is are scrutinizing them. Besides installing these spy microphones in every room, party inducts children into undermines family structure by inducting children into the Junior Spies, an association which influences, brainwashes and demands them to spy on their parents’ actions. If they notice any act of betrayal of the party, they report immediately so that the parents face the wrath of the law. For instance, Mrs. Parson is terrified of being accused of disloyalty or thoughtcrime by her children, who are junior spies.
The party manipulatively drives the public into sexual suppression and disbandment of their sexual cravings to almost nonexi...