How does 1984 represent power? What danger does George Orwell' s novel 1984 warn us against?

Power in
is portrayed as flowing from Big Brother and the Party. It is they who, as
the slogan emblazoned nearly everywhere in's world says, "are watching you." The Party
controls information, language, the food rations a person receives, the clothing that they wear,
their personal relationships, and virtually everything else. But the Party's power extends
beyond these external factors. It even controls the way people think. Part of this is through
the use of language, as referenced above, and the Thought Police tasked with enforcing
conformity. But Winston even fears that his very...