What specifically is Orwell warning us against, and how does he achieve this? What literary techniques does Orwell use in order to convey his themes?

warns
against state tyranny in , and more fundamentally, against attempts by the
government to control thought by controlling language. In this novel, not only do people
continually self-censor to avoid thought crimes, the state is in the process of reducing the
language to the fewest possible words, so that people will have no mechanism or vocabulary for
thinking subversively. Orwell wants us to remember to value and hold on to words and to the full
range of concepts that make human life rich, nuanced, and rewarding. He also wants us to hang
onto the humanity that emerges when two people enter into a caring relationship with each
other. 

To make his points, Orwell uses the literary techniques
of description and narration . He
places us from the first page into an imaginatively realized world, one with posters of Big
Brother plastered everywhere in a decrepit city (based on post-World War II London). We, as an
audience, are immediately pulled into this world because of the...