George Orwell Big Brother 1984 Analysis

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.

A society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death, the government does not think of the common good by which all of the society will benefit, and the leaders are self-serving. Big Brother doesn't need to justify its ways because it holds all of the power in society through its ministries. In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, there is one theme that stands out the most from the point of view from Winston, the main theme of the book is that government’s intentions are not benevolent, but self-serving this is show through government control, population control, and

Much like the society of Denmark, corruption crept its way into Big Brother’s society in 1984. Big Brother has absolute control over every aspect of its citizens from physical to emotional. The fear that it brings upon its people emphasizes the control and constant reminder that “Big Brother is always watching you” (Orwell, 4). Winston barely survives these emotional roller coasters that the totalitarian government has put them in and straddles along in a government job, trying to piece together how he feels and what he should do with his life. The society influence can be seen in hate week, hate rallies, and the two-minute hate. Winston finds himself conforming to the crowds chants and people having no control over their own minds as they would drop there own beliefs just as an assigned speaker changes sides. To the extreme, the government is turning kids into these mindless spies, robbing them of their innocence. Madness, again, drives citizens in these rallies that “[were] not that one was

In the novel, of 1984 by George Orwell, can Big Brother control what is real and what is not? He controls the past and by instilling fear in its citizens. He controls people by controlling minds and preventing anyone from being able to disprove it. He would also use methods to control the way people would speak in Oceania.

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.

   Propaganda is another way that Big Brother controls his citizens. He has posters all over the city of himself. “It depicted simply an enormous face more than a meter wider. The face of man of about forty-five.”(pg.1) The posters are there to remind the people not to break the law or do anything out of the ordinary. It strikes fear into people when they see it. Another form of propaganda is the mics hidden around the city to capture and detect the people breaking the law. “I didn’t want to say anything in the lane,” she said, “ In

With a dictatorship many freedoms that humanity may possess now would not be in our grasp. In 1984 they there were little to none. “Crimethink” or “thoughtcrime” are our unlawful thoughts, essentially any ideas that could go against English Socialism, “ingsoc.” Big Brother appears on Oceania’s televisions multiple times a day to show the brainwashing-esque messages, people vanish to unpersons, vaporized out of thin air, and the clock strikes thirteen. The main character, Winston Smith, leads the story and shows the audience how extreme this absolute totalitarian control affects the people of Oceania. Newspeak and doublethink, politically correct words created by Big Brother, also

In the novel 1984, George Orwell sets up a world whose citizens are forever under surveillance by the party. This forever surveillance and policy is illustrated through the concept of “Big Brother”, and the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, which is continuous throughout the novel. This expression is advertized inside and out of Oceania as a remembrance to the citizens that they are being scrutinized. The Citizens of Oceania give into being observed out of fear of the party. In the real word, people are giving up their personal freedoms, and privacy allowing government surveillance to grow. The real word does not see this as a fear, but as a benefit. People are so consumed with the benefits and the convenience that technology has provided,

Everywhere you look in this city there the same “black mustachioed face gazing down” with the same message “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own” (Orwell 2). This constant reminder that there is a group looking down at you, waiting for you to mess up instills fear in each individual which can cause an entire population to believe anything that Big Brother says. O’Brian also knows that Big Brother has ultimate control, “But always – do not forget this, Winston – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing” he says “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.” (Orwell

For example, the slogan, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (3), establishes the protective and overpowering persona of Big Brother. The significance of this poster with the big man is to send all the citizens a message that there is no escape from the controlling eyes of the government. It is a message to input fear into people, thus making them frightened to go against the government. Furthermore, the Oceania government displays telescreens “with its never-sleeping ear” (182). Telescreens are found in all rooms of Party members and in all public places to ensure that there are no signs of rebellion or thoughtcrime. Since the citizens are being continuously watched, they are not able to show feeling or emotion and have the same liberties that we have. However, the article “We’re living ‘1984’ today” states that “Today websites like Facebook track our likes and dislikes, and governments and private individuals hack into our computers and find out what they want to know,” revealing that both our world and the world of 1984 have technology that can spy on their citizens’ private lives (We’re living ‘1984’ today). But, the fact that there are telescreens and hidden microphones all around Oceania where the citizens do not even know when they are being watched, establishes the point of how Oceania’s citizens cannot live

One of factors the reader is immediately introduced to, is the incessant and haunting image of ‘BIG BROTHER’ and the power it asserts across all of Oceania, described as being “so contrived that the eyes follow you about as you move” (3). This highlights the uneasiness felt with the presence of this totalitaristic state and the helplessness obediently accepted by the people. BIG BROTHER is the representative for government group ‘the Party’ and is used as a way to communicate with the people through posters and a telescreen. The posters often come paired with captions such as ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’, ensuring that the nation stays aware of their severe lack of freedom and reminding them that any attempt to deter from what is acceptable would be futile. Incidentally, the main character, Winston Smith, is one that has not yet forgotten his memories of a more liberated time and holds onto the possibility of once more reaching freedom. This hope is gradually being repressed by the forces of society alongside the depressing atmosphere of London in year 1984. With the people’s memory becoming increasingly vague over time, it gives the Party more leverage to build off of this absence of consciousness to create a perfectly functioning, mindless society. Smith’s memory loss is made prevalent when “He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this….But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible.” (5). This also shows his association of the past with blankness, lacking depth, leaving space to be filled with BIG BROTHER’s propaganda. Also, the events Orwell writes about in this novel are often interpreted

Big Brother. A leader, tyrant and TV show. All of which have connotations of invading peoples already limited privacy. Big Brother originated in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the mysterious overlord that watches over every inhabitant through screens renamed “telescreens” in Orwellian newspeak. The main protagonist is Winston Smith is a 39 year old man who lives alone in Airstrip One of Oceania. He is constantly watched and unable to do or say anything that isn’t in line with what Big Brother stands for. If they are at war with Eurasia then he must hate Eurasia. Vice versa if Oceania is at war with Eastasia. When people don’t comply with the rules, they end up mysteriously disappearing. They vanish and it’s as if they had never

One of the most terrifying aspects of Big Brother is how closely he mirrors dictators that have existed such as Hitler and Stalin. These similarities reinforce the idea that a place like Oceania could truly exist and we too could easily have our humanity stripped from us. “The book appalls us because its terror far from being inherent in the human condition, is particular to our century; what haunts us is the sickening awareness that in 1984 Orwell has seized upon those elements of public life that, given courage and intelligence, were avoidable” (Frodsham, 139). Orwell forces us as people to look at our own government and freedoms and question if our society is truly just and free or if we are just like the people of Oceania, blissfully unaware that our government too, albeit to a lesser extent, seeks to control our thoughts and actions and if that desire could lead to our own version of Oceania. In certain aspects, society has already begun to mirror Orwell’s fears and predictions. The developments of technology and the introduction of the computer has made government surveillance possible to an extent Orwell could never have imagined . In this day and age, we as a society must be weary and take action against government control. If we fail to do so, we run the risk of finding ourselves with a fate not dissimilar from

The novel 1984, by George Orwell, was written post World War II and depicts a dystopian society where the government maintains all control. The Party monitors every aspect of life and tries to control what the citizens think and believe. The government needed a way to keep the people under control so they twisted reality by making things like Newspeak and Doublethink. The people of Oceania were so under-informed about history and themselves that they were able to believe whatever the government threw at them. Big Brother goes to extreme lengths to control language and history to manipulate individuality and dominate the population of Oceania.