Big Brother is here. Big Brother is there. Big Brother is everywhere. Big Brother is ubiquitous here on Earth, Napoleon and the other hubristic pigs are watching every move that is made by anybody at any place anywhere in the world. Both novels that are written by George Orwell, Animal Farm and 1984, contain the common qualities of totalitarianistic governments such as: being ruled by a single party and having total control of the military, communication, and the economy. Big Brother in 1984 and the duplicitous pigs in Animal Farm are both representative of a form totalitarianism. The abusive nature of governments is present in both Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984.
In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs act as form of totalitarianistic government. …show more content…
The pigs are cosseted, because they are in charge and can do as they please. Later in April, “Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President. There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously” (Animal Farm 117). This further goes to show the abusive nature of Napoleon, because an election with only one candidate who is elected unanimously is frivolous, appalling and sounds more like a dictatorship than a republic. Dreams are no more because “The luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally” (Animal Farm 129). This shows a form of totalitarianism, because the perfidious Napoleon does not allow the morose and somber animals to feel any sense of relaxation since working hard and living frugally is better. Napoleon is going against what he says to the animals since he does not work hard at …show more content…
Winston is afraid of Big Brother as he “kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing” (1984 3). This shows how scared Winston is of the threatening Big Brother that he has to turn his back away from a telescreen so that he is not facing it.Big Brother’s slogan is everywhere and “from where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (1984 4). This shows another way in which a totalitarian ruler seeks to apply its influence over its people by placing reminders of its slogans everywhere for everybody to see. The posters that contained the visage of Big Big Brother were scattered around for the people to look at and be reminded of the rules and regulations they need to follow. Big Brother has a way of making people disappear, because “People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word” (1984 19). This shows how the Party deals with disruptive people is making them disappear and remove them from the
In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs act as form of totalitarianistic government. …show more content…
The pigs are cosseted, because they are in charge and can do as they please. Later in April, “Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President. There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously” (Animal Farm 117). This further goes to show the abusive nature of Napoleon, because an election with only one candidate who is elected unanimously is frivolous, appalling and sounds more like a dictatorship than a republic. Dreams are no more because “The luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally” (Animal Farm 129). This shows a form of totalitarianism, because the perfidious Napoleon does not allow the morose and somber animals to feel any sense of relaxation since working hard and living frugally is better. Napoleon is going against what he says to the animals since he does not work hard at …show more content…
Winston is afraid of Big Brother as he “kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing” (1984 3). This shows how scared Winston is of the threatening Big Brother that he has to turn his back away from a telescreen so that he is not facing it.Big Brother’s slogan is everywhere and “from where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (1984 4). This shows another way in which a totalitarian ruler seeks to apply its influence over its people by placing reminders of its slogans everywhere for everybody to see. The posters that contained the visage of Big Big Brother were scattered around for the people to look at and be reminded of the rules and regulations they need to follow. Big Brother has a way of making people disappear, because “People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word” (1984 19). This shows how the Party deals with disruptive people is making them disappear and remove them from the