This Open Access article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non- commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com. The Party of Evil Genius in Orwell's 1984 Malek J. Zuraikat 1 & Haneen al-Nawasreh 2 1 Department of English, Yarmouk University. Corresponding author. ORCID: 0000-0003-1948-2671. Email: m.zuraikat@yu.edu.jo 2 Independent Researcher, Jordan. Email: 2018300002@ses.yu.edu.jo Abstract This paper explores the strategies of Evil Genius for manipulating people's principles, thoughts, orientations, and ideologies in favor of promoting the logic of the party of Evil Genius, as found in Orwell's 1984 (1949). Relying on Descartes's definition of Evil Genius, we argue that the party in 1984 deploys the strategies of delusional propaganda, memory resetting, and doublethink to convince people of the significance of Big Brother for their peace and prosperity. The paper examines the party's approach towards Winston, who has always been suspicious of the party, contending that the party successfully toys with Winston's mental and emotional perspectives, thus leading him to view his own ego or rationale as his worst enemy. Such a reading is significant due to potential similarities between Winston's experience of victimization and people's feeling of being victimized by the party of Evil Genius in the postmodern society. Keywords Descartes, Evil Genius, George Orwell, 1984, postmodernism. Introduction George Orwell's 1984 tackles the hypothesis of Evil Genius that is incarnated in the leprechaun party and its representative O'Brien. It displays the role of Evil Genius as a timeless and placeless entity that obtains the power to transform the real world into illusions and the illusionary into real. The novel shows how Evil Genius examines people's senses and awareness of the external world trying to delude them to believe that the world of Evil Genius is the one that makes sense, a strategy that potentially causes people to suspect everything real. Introducing the people of Oceania as predominately dominated by an illusion created by a group of psychopaths who turn people's external world into a dystopian nightmare, the novel emphasizes that Evil Genius may emerge in form of a deceptive mindset of an evil person who uses his genius cunning to manipulate people and impact their perception of reality in favor of supporting the ideology and interests of the party of Evil Genius. This is evident in Orwell's 1984, where the party of Evil Genius deploys illusionary propaganda, memory resetting, and doublethink to create its own deceptive Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 13, No. 3, 2021. 1-13 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.13 First published on October 21, 2021 © AesthetixMS 2021 www.rupkatha.com