“Big Brother,” a term used frequently in the 21st Century to express overly surveillent governments that was first coined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984 which expressed dissent towards both the Soviet government and the Nazi regime. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, education is encouraged to rise above ignorance while the dangers of censorship and ignorance are highlighted throughout the text through the actions of the book’s government and citizens, which is why it should not be banned from the school curriculum because it is important in modern society to stay woke and not allow the government or its affiliates to lead its citizenry astray from the truth. In 1984, Orwell encourages education in order to combat oppressive
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One such example is the occupation of the protagonist who works at the Ministry of Truth to rewrite history ,so to speak, so that it always supports the regime’s rhetoric no matter the changing tide. In one incident Winston invents an entire person to satisfy his position and the regime: “It was true there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence,” (Orwell 46). This displays how quick a person or what is assumed to be “fact” can be conjured up in replacement of the truth whenever the paranoid government is disatisfied. In the past century, when the U.S.S.R still reigned, all dissenters of the regime were silenced and “unmade”. Photographs, books, or articles that the “unmade” had previously been in had been censored as if they had never existed at all. This recurring theme warns that censorship could lead to propaganda and lies if the government was not held in check or accountable of its actions. Nonetheless, the opposition claims that the book is pro-communist even though it was conceived to criticize governments such as the Soviet and Nazi. Perhaps ,to the more inexperienced reader, this may be interpreted as such but does not change the fact that both the book and Orwell condemn
One such example is the occupation of the protagonist who works at the Ministry of Truth to rewrite history ,so to speak, so that it always supports the regime’s rhetoric no matter the changing tide. In one incident Winston invents an entire person to satisfy his position and the regime: “It was true there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence,” (Orwell 46). This displays how quick a person or what is assumed to be “fact” can be conjured up in replacement of the truth whenever the paranoid government is disatisfied. In the past century, when the U.S.S.R still reigned, all dissenters of the regime were silenced and “unmade”. Photographs, books, or articles that the “unmade” had previously been in had been censored as if they had never existed at all. This recurring theme warns that censorship could lead to propaganda and lies if the government was not held in check or accountable of its actions. Nonetheless, the opposition claims that the book is pro-communist even though it was conceived to criticize governments such as the Soviet and Nazi. Perhaps ,to the more inexperienced reader, this may be interpreted as such but does not change the fact that both the book and Orwell condemn