1984 Essay In the society of Oceania in 1984, the ruling party, or "Big Brother" controlled everything, including one’s own thoughts and feelings. A person could not even truly express the way they thought or felt because of the threat that there was someone from the thought police around, or that they were watching what you were doing on the telescreen at that exact moment. Some things were especially effected by Big Brother, such as the …showed first 75 words of 528 total…

…showed last 75 words of 528 total…to make the people believe anything they say even that two and two make five. In conclusion, the main idea of big brother was to restrict and manipulate everything that the citizens of Oceania thought and felt. Although everything was controlled, or thought to be controlled by “Big Brother”, three things that were especially focused on in the novel were the language, society and marriage life, and the society’s effect on it’s citizens.