Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

From the start of the episode, it was evident that “Eye of the beholder” paralleled 1984. The episode starts with Janet Tyler lying in a bed with her face wrapped in bandages. She consistently asks the nurses when they will take the bandages off, but the nurses only reply with a vague, unsatisfying answer. Similarly, in 1984, Winston constantly begs O’Brien to tell him when they will kill him. In addition, Janet is kept in a room labeled “Room 307,” which is similar to “Room 101” where Winston was kept. Although Janet is not physically tortured like Winston in the room, she is mentally tortured because no matter how many surgeries she undergoes, she is still not up to par with the beauty of the rest of her society. When the doctor finally removes Janet’s bandages, she appears to be a very pretty, “normal” human. However, the director then does a close-up of the doctor and the rest of the staff. Their faces are grotesque and resemble pigs. Janet begins to run away and ultimately ends up running into huge screens with the leader of her society talking about “glorious conformity.” These screens are similar to telescreens in 1984, which allowed Big Brother, the leader of Winston’s society, to address matters of Oceania. Big Brother, like Janet’s leader also stressed the message of conformity.
Society in 1984 was determined to exterminate the undesirables. In this case, the undesirables were the “proles” or other people who did not strongly support The Party. However, in The Twilight Zone episode, the undesirables were people who did not look bizarre pigs, who defined that place’s norm. But who controls the norm? The message of this episode of The Twilight Zone is that whoever has power, controls the norm. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” In 1984, the beholder was The Party, thus only people who were strong supporters of the party were normal. But in The Twilight Zone, the ugly pigs are the norm, because they hold power. Everyone has a different vision of what “normalcy” represents. That necessary feeling of belonging to a society or group causes most people to conform to be normal. Hence, The Party is able to leverage this behavior into all aspects of life as it gains more and more power in 1984. In the episode Janet is forced to live with people of her “own” kind because of the emphasis placed on conformity in her society.