1984 Abuse Quotes

With the power hungry Party and the most acknowledged face of Big Brother watching and monitoring everybody, the story of “1984” by George Orwell expresses the utmost control over their people and have the absolute power with their country Oceania. The Party believes that Big Brother will live on forever, because of the constant removal of those who are unfaithful and the rewriting of history. However, with the example of the main character showing disobedience against the Party, there is a chance for this type of ruling to fail and be destroyed by the people. The main possible cause of the fall of Big Brother is most likely the underestimation of the power of the people.

George Orwell’s political parable, 1984, portrays an oppressive and dictatorial government, which thereby presents to the reader a palpable sense of danger and malevolence born out of the creation of a counter utopic totalitarian regime. Orwell’s nihilistic creation of Oceania, presents a world wherein every aspect of private and public life is abhorrently regimented and regulated by the autocratic ‘Big Brother’. The whole population at large is forced to conform to the ideals and beliefs of the tyrannical ‘party’ as a means of not only survival but also a means of being able to live an unabated existence. The party opposes all forms of individuality and

The Society of Oceania is ruled by a totalitarian power hunger all-knowing government that seeks power and control over its people and society by a figure known as Big Brother. The poster of Big Brother is a so called figure head of the government that installs fear

Big Brother is the unseen leader of the Party whose face is seen throughout London on posters that say “Big Brother is Watching You”. He is supposed to give a feeling of comfort to the citizens by his ability to protect. In reality Big Brother does not exist, but is used by the Party to intimidate criminals. Big Brother is an example of the way that the Party uses “doublethink”. The Party uses “doublethink” and manipulates the people of Oceania into believing that Big Brother is all powerful, everlasting, and all knowing. Big Brother is not even alive, but is a symbol that the Party uses to control its people. The people of Oceania are manipulated into loving Big Brother and when one says “Down with Big Brother” it is seen as the worst form

In George Orwell’s 1984 Power is gained most effectively through control, fear and violence. Compared to a government like that of America’s, 1984 creates a more threatening structure of government where the public is limited from freedom and happiness. 1984 shows a world of a society where only the upper class has power and freedom from the harsh treatment that the general population receives. The idea of Big Bother makes the population of Oceania believe they are being watched over by a powerful force and oppresses them so they feel powerless and unable to do anything against a “great” force like Big Brother. The well-being of others depends on their willingness to agree with Big Brother and abide by their laws, if you think otherwise then you will be an accuser of thought-crime will be vaporized and removed from society or harshly punished through rigorous treatment and torture methods as was Winston and Julia. Power creates problems for others in which they do not deserve.

Big Brother is watching you. This simple phrase revolves around the citizens of Oceania’s lives every day. They live in a world where they do not have their own beliefs. The government controls everything, including what they do, what they think, even how they speak. At a young age, the population is taught how to act according to the government’s wishes. They live their lives working according to what the government wants. Winston, the main character, works in the Ministry of Truth, where he alters the past. All possible love and loyalty is towards the Party. The government of Oceania manipulates and molds the minds of its citizens as to how they wish them to be. Throughout the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, the author and the society of Oceania constantly tries to and succeeds in creating and maintaining the members of society’s devotion towards becoming and being a perfect Party member.

Throughout George Orwell 1984, people in Oceania have no freedom in actions, speech and even cannot use their minds to think or believe in certain things. The society cannot have independent thinking since this will leads them to commit a thoughtcrime, which it causes them to be tortured to death. Big Brother was one of the many propaganda tools used in Oceania. The face of Big Brother is used to promote the ideal man, one who is tall and muscular living in a perfect world. Additionally, Big Brother is the one who has absolute power to manipulate and monitor citizens eternally. In today's world, the government is more present today than in the book as a result of durable high-speed technology.

Psychological manipulation is one of the most prominent themes present in this novel. Not only are the citizens of Oceania manipulated by their government, but they are also physically controlled as well. The Party controls what the people do as well as think. There are signs posted all around the city Declaring “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 1).

Oceania’s government is known as the Party. The Party controls every aspect of the citizens’ lives. They do not have privacy in their own homes, because the telescreens are constantly being monitored by the “Thought Police.” Citizens live in fear of committing a “thoughtcrime” or a “facecrime,” and being taken during the night. Once the citizens are taken, they are erased from records as if they never existed. The novel 1984 by George Orwell is about government and reveals the Party controls natural tendencies and the past of Oceania’s citizens.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel; He is apparently the leader of Oceania. In Party publicity, Big Brother is presented as one of the organizers of the Party. George Orwell describes Oceania’s society where every citizen is under persistent surveillance by authorities. The people are repetitively reminded by the saying "Big Brother is watching you.” The Party keeps citizens under surveillance through telescreens, which are found in all rooms belonging to Party members, and in public places. The Party uses children to keep an eye on their parents. The children are skilled to be devoted Party followers. The children are vicious towards thought criminals and most parents are frightened of their own children.

In Nineteen Eighty – Four, power is represented by the totalitarian rule of Big Brother. Through the use of the ‘Thought Police’ Big brother attempts to control the thoughts and actions of the Oceania, stealing their power and freedom. The Party aims to eradicate any type of free will. Any violation of laws result in serious punishment, as they would have committed a ‘thought crime’ .

This story takes place in an imaginary country called Oceania; it is one of the three large super states in the world of 1984. Oceania is a society similar to Hitler's Germany; with absolute power in the government and absolutely no individualism. Oceania is ruled by a totalitarian government, the leader of the government was Big Brother. Big brother monitors all the people by telescreens and the thought police. Telescreens watch every move that is made and there is no privacy.

“Two ways of exercising power over men, of controlling their relations, of separating out their dangerous mixtures. The plague stricken town, transversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual bodies-this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city” (Foucault, 6) This quote extracted from the Essay Panopticism written by Michel Foucault perfectly describes in detail the controls put on the citizens of Big Brother’s Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984. Through control of relation, surveillance, and separating out their dangerous mixtures Big Brother obtains a government

Orwell and Ishiguro institute their dystopias through setting, writing style, and symbols as a prior foundation to demonstrate the extent of the oppressive societies associated with their creations. Orwell in presents a frightening, futuristic world of advanced technology set in the superstate known as Oceania, where everyone is constantly being watching by monitors known as “telescreens”. The author presents a society of hierarchical structure with Big Brother at the top of the apex, followed by the general public known as the 'Party’, with the ‘proles’ being at the bottom of the societal pyramid. Orwell highlights this structure through the capitialisation of the words ‘Big Brother’ and the ‘Party’, while lowercasing the term ‘proles’ to highlight there low social ranking. Big Brother is the ultimate figure of Oceania and a symbolic figure whom strikes both loyalty and fear in people, having never been seen, but respected and feared. He is represented by propaganda as a “black-moustachio’d face [gazing] down from

Maintaining control of a government relies on the support of its citizens. There are many ways to manage a country and unfortunately, only very few of these methods are effective. Some methods, such as a democratic society those that they govern are free with their individual rights and freedoms. In other methods, people are kept under constant surveillance with zero individual rights or freedoms, a totalitarian government. An example of such a government can be found in that of George Orwell’s “1984”. The government of Oceania known as “The Party”, control its citizens both physically and psychologically. The Party controls Oceania in many different ways, but one of the methods play a large role in maintenance of government’s power. The Party’s best method of control is Ingsoc.