The Role Of Big Brother In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the people of Oceania are led to believe that every moment of everyday watchful eyes are keeping an account of everything you do and everything you say. Someone sitting, watching and following your every action, even anticipating your next move is rather questionable by today’s standards, yet in Nineteen Eighty- Four, it is all the people know. The watchful eye of Big Brother, the leader of the party and an enemy of the free man, yet in Winston’s society there is no such thing as a true free man. How do people live in a world where we’re watching one another and in a single moment accuse each other of wrongdoings that are mere views of Big Brother? The major techniques that are exploited by the party, towards its members are parallel to systematic brainwashing. There are certain tools that both communities implement in order to create a pyramid of …show more content…
Sadly the depictions that George Orwell portrayed in the 1949 classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, he gave people a glance of the past and of the possible future if the people did not change and the people continued to blindly be led like sheep by the governments will. Nineteen Eighty- Four is centered on a war, yet the people of Oceania cannot fully explain with who, or why, or even how long the war has been going. Winston, like the people who vanished and ceased to be spoken of again, questions Big Brother and what he knows or what he thinks he knows. Winston questions his thoughts and actions without regard for his life, welcoming death as an alternative to the lie he is living. Winston is prepared to give up everything, commit unthinkable acts: give up his life, betray country, sabotage innocent people, and even commit murder to learn the truth before Big Brother was able to change