Big Brother

In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he shows us a world in which mind control, manipulation, and how the power of the government can lead to controlling the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom. In many ways, our world is already like the fictitious one Orwell wrote almost 70 years ago. A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. One person or an elite few…

President John F. Kennedy once said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” The concept of conformity and individuality is clearly illustrated in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Like most dystopian societies, Fahrenheit 451 contains a damaged society in which the people watch excessive amounts of television on wall size sets, listen to music on seashell radio sets, and drive extremely fast, not afraid to hit animals or people. The masses never think…

The start of the novel Winston Smith goes to part of a city where the “Proles” live. While he’s among the Proles Winston goes to an antique store in the prole district and comes along to find a beautiful old looking paperweight. The store owner Mr. Charrington describes it as “a beautiful little thing” (84). The paperweight is meant to symbolize many of events and things that happen to Winston such as Winston's hopes and dreams and his future with him and Julia. He wants things to be normal…

Winston is constantly reminded that Big Brother is always watching him, knowing if and when a thought crime is committed against him. In this way, Set design by Chloe Lamford is envisioned to resemble a television screen using black barriers looking into the stage, this is made to appear as if the audience themselves were the all-seeing Big Brother. Tim Reid’s use of a live off-stage camera furthers the surveillance theme. Winston and Julia…

The novel 1984 is a dystopian book that follows the life of Winston, one of the middle class citizens living in Oceania. Oceania is controlled by Big Brother, who spies on the people and eliminates all personal privacy. Winston wants to escape the oppressive forces of Big Brother’s totalitarian government. Oppression pushes people to do whatever it takes to get their freedom. An example of fighting for freedom and the dissolution of oppression in 1984 is when Julia causes a commotion in the…

Oceania is a perfect example of a totalitarian regime, in which the Party controls every action of every citizen, from what they wear, to where they work, to limiting their love. If somebody falls out of line, or seems like they are not loyal, they will be killed, and every record of them will be destroyed. The Party also holds the right to change history if what they predicted in the past isn’t true anymore. We have real life examples as to how much this type of society can damage our world,…

example, in chapter 7, Winston says “ If there is hope, it lies in Proles.” This is saying that 85 percent of Oceania could face the force to destroy the party ever be generated. Winston lets the proles have a chance at overcoming the power of the big brother and the party. Winston thinks that if the Proles could become aware of the strengths that the proles have, then Winston wouldn’t have to make a so called plan, and they could blow the party away and everything would be ok. This is irony of…

people know, every key stroke on every device, including smartphones, computers, and even voice calls on phones, is recorded. In today's world, the only secrets are in people's heads. This is very similar to Winston, as he has many secrets, but Big Brother is always watching. Every television is tapped, every work station has a camera, and…

persisting to maintain individuality. A prime example of this is Winston and Julia’s interactions. Conroy and Mills have been effective in their gestures, facial expressions and body language remaining true to realism as their super-objective of defying big brother to savour their love and prolong their liberty symbolises hope, relating to the true-to-life nature of their characters, since affection and freedom are a part of life and normality. The Convention of Realism, of believable characters…

ideas,” and as such amassed more, and more absolute, power than ever before. This power is definitely presented as evil to the core; the whole book is about rebellion against it, and even Winston’s eventual succumbation to the Party’s ideals and Big Brother is something the reader is supposed to be disgusted…