How can the theme of dystopian society in George Orwell's 1984 be explored in terms of the deification of authority?

The theme of dystopian society makes Orwell's novel one of
the most powerful in English Literature. It is particularly through Winston's torture at
the hands of the charismatic O'Brien that the reader is able to see a leadership so
convinced of its right to power that it believes it can alter the the most basic
premises of human logic and instincts. However, the Party knows that driving all
its repressive measures there needs to be a central figure of 'truth' and authority that
the people can be coaxed into adoring.

Big Brother
represents the deification of authority that the Party needs to maintain its iron grip
over its citizenry. Whether Big Brother actually exists is not made clear, but this
serves to reinforce the point that it is simply the credible perception of an all
powerful leader supposedly benevolently acting in the citizenry's best interests that
facilitates blind following. In the novel it enables the Party to dispense all-manner of
propaganda and rob the people of even their most intimate privacy and freedoms; all
under the guise of acting in the greater interests of the people as determined by the
diefied Big Brother. Winston, the intrepid protagonist who had dreamed of undermining
the state, eventually becomes the embodiment of the ultimate victim of a dystopian
society - a hapless, brainwashed shell of a human,

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"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it
had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache....But
it was alright, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the
victory over himself. He loved Big Brother" (p.
311).