Big Brother Some roles that Big Brother plays in the novel 1984 is fear, manipulation, and power. The effect that this character has on Winston is everything that the Party is using it for. Winston fears being caught for thought crime, and he’s manipulated into thinking that it’s bad to record the existence of your life. The Party holds a higher power over him and can take everything away from him, including his life.
Big Brother plays the role in this novel as a very useful fear tactic. The narrator describes the Big Brother poster with an eerie tone, “On each landing…the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so continued that the eyes follow you about when you move”(1-2). This describes how posters of Big Brother is plastered everywhere, and how it seems as if Big Brother is really watching you. This is a useful fear tactic because the people feel as …show more content…
The Party uses Big Brother to help them manipulate the past, present and the future, “And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth”(34). They achieve this by rewriting history and constantly changing the word formats used in books. The Party controls everything that the people read, and see. Then once everything is rewritten they burn all the evidence of the real version of history or books. They call these “memory holes”. The workers are required to throw the documents through these holes which is just a big pit that burns the documents, books, and even pictures. Since the Party is able to control the history that people learn about, they begin to forget what is real. People forget about the past and now the Party can control the past as well as control the future. This is how the Party manipulates their people because memory becomes unreliable and the people will now believe anything that the Party
Big Brother plays the role in this novel as a very useful fear tactic. The narrator describes the Big Brother poster with an eerie tone, “On each landing…the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so continued that the eyes follow you about when you move”(1-2). This describes how posters of Big Brother is plastered everywhere, and how it seems as if Big Brother is really watching you. This is a useful fear tactic because the people feel as …show more content…
The Party uses Big Brother to help them manipulate the past, present and the future, “And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth”(34). They achieve this by rewriting history and constantly changing the word formats used in books. The Party controls everything that the people read, and see. Then once everything is rewritten they burn all the evidence of the real version of history or books. They call these “memory holes”. The workers are required to throw the documents through these holes which is just a big pit that burns the documents, books, and even pictures. Since the Party is able to control the history that people learn about, they begin to forget what is real. People forget about the past and now the Party can control the past as well as control the future. This is how the Party manipulates their people because memory becomes unreliable and the people will now believe anything that the Party