The Role of Big Brother in 1984

In the beginning of the book we see that Big Brother is in charge of Oceania and at the end of the novel, Big Brother is still in charge. The beginning of the novel is important as the end, however, nothing seems to change Winston loved big brother then later he questions himself why he loves Big brother. After being torture he no longer has questions of Big Brother or where his loyalty is he loves and respect Big Brother. “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Book 3 Chapter 6). During the novel, Winston wanted to join a rebellion and fight against Big Brother but after being torture Winston hopes faded and ended up if nothing has happened. The only thing Winston change is some words that went against the Party but after losing his job and being torture he went along with whatever Big Bother said. Which made no difference to Oceania since they have still had to follow and obey the Party and their awful

In 1984, George Orwell demonstrates Big Brother's power through their ability to unknowingly harm Winston, the protagonist, physically. For instance, Winston’s varicose ulcer acts as a physical representation of his rebellious thoughts. Because Winston cannot openly contain or act on his resentment for Big Brother, it manifests itself in his body. The progression and eventual destruction of the relationship between Winston and his varicose ulcer by Big Brother shows that Big Brother’s power end is the ability to indirectly physically harm its citizens.

Characters and conflict are both heavily reliant on each other and both are needed for a functioning story. In the book 1984, Winston Smith, the main character, and Big Brother both play major roles in the stories conflict. Winston Smith is a minor member of the Ministry of Truth which along with two other Ministries rules over London. Winston is an intelligent and thoughtful, but weak and frail 39-year-old man. In Order to freely express himself Winston has a diary and goes to the slums of the city where he will not be monitored by the parties of big brother. Winston believes that he has a revolutionary dream that could change his and many others lives but is being oppressed by the parties totalitarian control over his life. Throughout the

1984 by George Orwell is a novel set in a dystopian near-future London, the chief city of Airstrip One, Oceania. The people in Oceania are under the control of the Party. Big Brother, or BB, is the face of the Party and the leader of this great power that rules over Oceania. He is a dominant figure who acts as a trustworthy entity for the people he governs, but ironically is their worst enemy in many ways. His posters, captioned “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, can be seen everywhere in the streets of London. These posters give the reader a physical description of what one can imagine Big Brother to look like. He is a man of about forty-five with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features that make him look scary but leader-like. Most people in this society are unaware of how they are brainwashed and controlled by the Party. Big Brother controls Oceania with various carefully designed techniques, some of which are: keeping the Outer Party in control with the 24-hour surveillance, Reality Control and by controlling the proles -- by keeping them ignorant and luring them through privileges.

During Winstons torturing he says “I hate him’ ‘You hate him. GOod. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother” (282). Then he is sent to room 101. After he gets out of the room he find himself in the cafe and it is there where he write 2+2=5 on the table. This shows that he loves big brother, and the brainwashing worked. He loves him because he did not have any other option other than to love him. Ultimately “ He has won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”(298). The party won Winston is now a slave to the party just like everyone else. He has been brainwashed into thinking everything Big Brother says is

Big Brother is not loved, he is feared because whoever talks bad about him they get vaporized and or vanish. The fear is what might stop the “different” citizens from rebelling, they can easily be punished and put to death so they cannot go against big brother. The Party might even get rid of Big Brother to have more power or be a fair government. Rebelling will have two sides, worth losing people in the process or failing all together O’Brien tells Winston that all the party cares about is power, but the citizens can build up the same power and take them down. Near the end O’Brien explains that there are others like Winston, and that they are extinct.

There are many Comparisons to 1984 and the Holocaust. The Book and the time in which it was written are very similar. There are similarities to George Orwell’s book 1984 and The time of the Holocaust used throughout the book and the time period in which it was written. Both the story and the real life event had parties that were in control. The frist thing that they have in common is they use symbols that represent the party and their power over people.

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

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 novel, 1984, there is a constant overshadowing entity referred to as Big Brother which is their government. Throughout this novel the citizens of this society are reminded that, “Big Brother is watching you” (2). This puts the fear of God in most of the characters, especially Winston. Although he is rebellious, he is so paranoid when he is doing something Big Brother has told them not to do. He is so paranoid that at one point in the novel he believes that they have placed microphones in the bushes in the woods when he meets with his mistress, Julia. According to Winston, “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull” (27).

Big Brother and the Party needed impregnable loyalty so over time they systematically tore the ties between lovers and family. “We [The Party] have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman, No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.” (267). A government like Oceania’s is dependant on “no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party” so they created a system that creates Party loyalty as the only reliable option. Winston’s life is merely an example of the Party’s plan in action.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell there is a character named Winston he lives in a town called Oceania. Which is a place where people are controlled by someone called “Big Brother” Big Brother is someone who is constantly watching them which they are reminded of because there are signs that say “Big Brother is

The role that Big brother play within the novel is the it was winston `s character in his book that winston`s wrote about. The effect that big brother had on winston`s effect is that he was a character and he was explaining about the party. Winston is obsessed with big brother more because he's a good friend than O`brien because when winston was at work he would talk more with big brother than O`brien because O'brien would be a little bit mean. The evidence that I found this at is when the first chapter is about to finish or in the second chapter. When I was reading the book 1984 Winston was describing what O'brien was wearing and how he act when Winston was at work.

“A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police... He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever.” (210-211) Not only are citizens oppressed by the rules, but even those working for Big Brother are bounded by the same exceptions. Furthermore, the Party handles betrayal in a manner, which demonstrates the domination of the government.

Winston was frustrated by the oppression. He completely hated the Party and he illegally bought a diary, where he illegally wrote down his thoughts. He had also became fixated on a Party member named O’Brein, who Winston thought was a part of a mysterious group that works against the Party. Winston worked in the Ministry of Truth. He altered historical records to fit the needs of the Party. He noticed a coworker staring at him, and he worried that she will turn him in for his Thoughtcrime. Winston felt troubled by the Party’s control of history. The party claimed that the alleged leader of the BrotherHood, Goldstein, was the most dangerous man alive, but it didn’t make sense to Winston. Throughout London, Winston saw posters showing a man looking down with the words “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” everywhere he went. BigBrother was the face of the Party, but Winston never determined whether that was true or not.