Big Brother

lives in, is constantly fighting is pointless. Winston later on meets a girl named Julia who he at first hates, but as she shows that she also sees the lies Winston comes to love her and they join a secret group called The Brotherhood that fights Big Brother, another name for the government. Winston tells us the reader that he doesn't enjoy to watch the public hangings even though many of his colleges love to watch them. He buys from local shopkeepers even though that is not to be done even…

dystopian futuristic society, or normal modern day life, you could see the theme present in each book. In the beginning of 1984 by George Orwell, Winston has a gut instinct not to trust Big Brother, but Big Brother controls him. His every move is being watched through Telescreens and any act against Big Brother is punishable by death. He wants to escape this control but he would get caught so he’s trapped, he has to remain loyal and do as he is told. In It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned…

the year nineteen eighty four and on. Though the similarities may not match up to America’s current situation, North Korea’s dictatorship does. North Korea is currently lead by Kim Jong-un whose face is plastered on buildings much like that of Big Brother, the leader of Oceania. The totalitarian style government in 1984 has many similarities to North Korea’s present form of government. Citizens of North Korea and Oceania are both very similar in the way that they live, unaware…

This passage is a description of Winston’s fellow employee, Mr. Parsons, who is condemned for blindly following Big Brother and acting without questioning his orders. His character acts as a foil for Winston, and it is through his moral inferiority that the superiority of the individual revolutionary (in this case, Winston) is highlighted and made obvious. 1984 condemns…

The party uses the concept of Big Brother to maintain power. There is absolute control over daily life, constant rationing, vaporizing of individuals who don't conform…

In “1984” by George Orwell, the main character, Winston, is being tortured for being unloyal to the party. The head of the Ministry of Love, O’Brien, tells Winston the overall objective of the party. The party’s ultimate goal is dehumanization so that they have total control of the people. This goal is established through a condescending diction, repetition, and imagery. Condescending diction establishes the need for superiority. The citizens of the society have to be “suffering” and…

of Oceania at all times, he hates the fact that he has no contact with the world outside of Oceania except the vision of war captives being brought into Oceania, and more than anything he has an pure disdain for Big Brother. As he repeatedly writes in his journal: “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” [3]. D-503 distastes the concept of “freedom” and describes it as: “an unorganized primitive state”[4]. One the other hand, Winston Smith pleads for freedom. Throughout the novel most of Winston’s time is…

Smith is the epitome of a citizen possessing individuality within Oceania as his efforts to maintain self-control of his progress in this totalitarianism society work against him. His distrust in humanity is the root cause of his rebellion against Big Brother. As he and his new love, Julia, revolt against Oceania’s laws through their individuality, O’Brien catches, captures, and betrays them. Brought into the Ministry of Love, Winston is endures torture and mind control in effort to invert…

89 years ago, Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name, George Orwell, started his career in the writing of essays and novels. In 1949 he published his first dystopian novel, 1984. This story, like that of Children of Men directed by Cuaron, is set in an isolated London where the government has manipulated its people into submission. Evidently, these societies are not ones to strive towards, but what are these works trying to tell us? In these worlds, where morality is scarce and…

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."(Orwell) The strength of his loyalty to himself, mainly his mind, was not great enough against the government's 'cure'. The Party forced Winston to abandon his belief in the validity of his past memories. One example of his new view on his memories…