Big Brother

that the governments ruling them are corrupt and its citizens are at risk of having basic privacy. ‘ Big Brother is watching you,’ a slogan of the party, is shown and displayed nearly everywhere in Oceania to alert people that their being watched all the time. At the same time, the slogan emphasizes Big Brothers power and makes belief in people making them think they are safe because of Big Brother, but they are in fact in danger, all the time. Although fictional, Orwell’s novel mirrors the…

1984. In the book, 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith, is forced to live in a Totalitarian society where the Party, the Government in the book, monitors everything that one does, where one goes, and to make sure that one believes in the words of Big Brother. This has become a controversial topic due to the fact that it appears that our society is headed in a direction of a Totalitarian society. In the novel, 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the a low-ranking member the Party in London,…

The quote “you can’t judge a book by its cover” can easily apply to the character of Winston Smith. The author might of chose to construct Winston the way he did was to keep the story interesting and the reader interested in the character. George Orwell also might of constructed Winston as an unjudgeable character to get the points he wanted to get across to the reader. Finally, George Orwell made the character of Winston someone the reader can relate to. Keeping the story interesting and the…

story have eerily come true. The novel tells the story of a socially stratified post-nuclear war world ruled by 3 superstates: Eastasia, Eurasia and Oceania and a mayor political party: “The Big Brother”. The “BB” is the boss, the holy guardian of society and even, sometimes, considered as a God. "Big Brother" changed almost everything in the 1984’s society; from the language to even how people dressed themselves. Maybe, today’s society is not exactly as Orwell’s, but there are some similarities…

freedom, and technical. Living in a society with limited freedom is not the way any one wants to live. Big Brother controlled everything, including one's thoughts, feelings, sex, and any expression of individuality. They could not even express the way they thought or felt because there was someone from the thought police around, or that the giant telescreen in every citizen’s room shouts “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”. “Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper…

The novel 1984 and the film The Matrix have many common themes and characters, but are also very different stories. The first similarity of the two works is between 1984’s Thought Police and The Matrix’s agents. In 1984, the Thought Police control everything and are always watching; looking for inappropriate actions, behaviour, or even expressions. On the other hand, the agents do very similar things in the matrix and through this they have created a “prison for the mind” (Wachowski and…

Whether they were born into the Party as true believers, or brainwashed to enforce the Party’s principles, true believers plague Big Brother’s society. Created by the horrors of the Party, O’Brien is a unique true believer. Although he was once a rebel to the party, he now serves as a spy for the thought police, uncovering rebels like Julia and Winston. He openly accepts and enforces…

also went by the name Uncle Joe (“Joseph Stalin-Psychopathology Of A Dictator”). Stalin used tactics that are similar to the ones used by Oceania’s Party in the novel 1984, by George Orwell. In this novel a totalitarian society is controlled by Big Brother, a symbolic figure for the ruling Party, who wields all power over the population. Strategies that are indistinguishable from the Soviet Unions’ are embedded in the text, mirroring what was happening in Russia during the time 1984 was written.…

rebellion by eliminating all the words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is deemed to be illegal. This is called thoughtcrime, and it is the worst of all. These regulations are controlled by Big Brother, a figure that no one has ever seen. In fact, there is no proof that says Big Brother is even real, but the “thought” of questioning such matter could cause a citizen to be vaporized. Such harsh consequence results in understandable fear among the people living in this society.…

concerning government control are becoming quite evident in today’s society. In the novel 1984, the main setting is Oceana, a futuristic England. Orwell’s Oceana “portrays a future totalitarian world, ruled by a seemingly, omnipotent tyrant called Big Brother” (Perloff 27). The Party is a controlled government using fear and terror in every aspect in the lives of party members. Oceana closely resembles today’s North Korean society. The North Korean government denies basic freedoms to their…