Time And Place In Fritz Lang's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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.

Big Brother is the controlling dictator of Oceania, which is the totalitarian state that the Party bows total power to. Every citizen, is under persistent surveillance by the authorities, the Thought Police. The citizens are mainly being monitored by tele-screens. These screens operate both as televisions and security cameras. Tele-screens are located in every room that belongs to a Party member as well as public locations. People in Oceania are constantly reminded that “Big Brother is watching you.” Big Brother is described as a figure that will never die because he is the representation of the Party and is said to live as long as the Party lives.

The totalitarian party manipulates and invalidates the minds of the outer party and proles. Orwell describes the surroundings of Winston, showing totalitarianism, writing:

Bandwagon propaganda was used by The Party with the Two Minutes’ Hate against Goldstein. The Party uses this to have the Proles direct their anger at a specific person and believe the reason they are angry is because of Goldstein and not them. This is an example of bandwagon fallacy. This is when one uses a fact somebody believes in the idea then must be true. Another threat The Party uses is to “vaporize” anybody who does not support The Party, which eliminates doublethink and supports that everybody loves Big Brother because if you don’t you will most likely be eliminated. The other fallacy is the genetic fallacy. In this case it is a

Symbol of Big Brother: A totalitarian government. he is a reassurance to most people (his name suggests his ability to protect), but he is also an open threat (one cannot escape his watch). Big Brother also symbolizes the vagueness with which the higher ranks of the Party present themselves—its impossible to know who rules Oceania, what life is like for the rulers, or why they act the way they do.

Even though he had his sovereignty ripped away from him, Smith felt nothing short of adorance for the face of the Party, and it becomes apparent as to how Big Brother immortalizes. “Big Brother is watching,” is assurance for the Party members that he is always with them, but the reality of the posters are that no one has freedom nor do they have privacy. Citizens of Oceania are exploited, and this is exactly the kind of vampire Foster was describing in his guide to analyzing literature. Big Brother is an old, beguiling character who can win the heart of those he leads with mere propaganda and keep rebellion at bay by altering facts, events, and teachings so that there is only a uniform ideology. However, Orwell may have created the character for political reasons due to the events surrounding the date the novel 's year of publication.

In the book The Party has all of the power over its people. They make sure that everyone loves big brother and does not think for themselves. All of this is done to make sure that they stay in power. You would think that the reason that they would want to do this is to govern the people so there is no more chaos and anarchy. As this passage suggests, it is quite the opposite. The reason for gain power is for power alone. They are not interested in helping anyone, the party wants to stay in power as a person wants to stay alive. It is survival of the fittest and keeping power forever will make people “immortal.” Immortal in the sense that Big Brother will never die since it is just a make believe person that people can focus on. As long as

Despite the numerous other reasons for the downfall of Big Brother, the uprising of the Proles is most logical given the entire purpose for Big Brother. Big Brother and the Party desire power and control by oppressing people to believe that they need Big Brother to live. The phrase “War is Peace” is one of Big Brother’s slogan that explains how the Party maintains their power. By having a prolonged war where no country is able to obtain victory, it provides power over their people because they become more dependent on them. Therefore, Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania will not attempt to win the war, but prolong it, so they can have more control and power. Furthermore, the Party will never

Additionally, the portrayal of this dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian government might have been understood well by contemporary audiences, mirroring the rules of totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy- the citizens have no influence on the government and have no freedom of choosing the rules that govern and control every part of their lives. Therefore, Winston blames the misery in his life totally and completely on the government and on Big Brother. In Winston’s case, we can see that the propaganda, deprivation, and strict rules fail to make him concur with the party and accept Big Brother- in this situation, the party has to use extreme force and torture to make Winston love the party as well as Big Brother, in order for the party to maintain complete power.

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

He uses the themes of excessive power, surveillance, manipulation, and the like to describe a totalitarian regime that cannot fall. One of the most interesting themes in the book was portrayed in the ruling party’s use of manipulation. The ruling party uses constant bombardment of propaganda to diminish a person’s potential hate for the party. The idea was to twist a person’s hate of the party into hate to a wanted rebel (although it is never clear whether this rebel truly exists). They would lie and say that the rebel (who was known as Goldstein) wanted to hurt the people and cause havoc. The party would hold rallies for people to scream and yell and hate Goldstein, thereby focusing their rage on something besides the party. They knew that if you gave the people a common enemy, they would cooperate. The party would even lie about how lucky the population was compared to the rest of the world due to the auspices of “the Party”. The regime would also consistently monitor everyone, to make sure no one was speaking out, or even thinking of speaking out (which is considered a “thought crime”, and when noticed, the “thought police” will immediately be dispatched to punish the “criminal”). They would use the people to do unbelievable amounts of labor to provide

The description of Big Brother himself bears a physical resemblance to Stalin and his cult of personality. Orwell's Big Brother is an all-seeing, all-knowing figure with ultimate authority. Soviet Russia was Orwellian in the sense that individual thought was eliminated and all emotion was directed towards the nation and the figure of Stalin himself. It is difficult to find accurate accounts of specific relationships that occurred in Soviet Russia. However, Orwell’s 1984 bears such close resemblance to Soviet Russia that it gives an accurate example of the ultimate failure of love between two individuals in a totalitarian regime. In 1984, the goal of the Party was to eliminate love and loyalty because these two qualities create bonds between two people. It is these bonds that are the biggest threat to the Party because they result in Ownlife. The Party

Also by making them feel like they are under constant survaliance it doesn’t allow for personal freedom and the right to feel secure. During Winston’s stay at the Ministry of Love and O’Brien was curing Winston from his insanity and decided that, “the time has come for you [Winston] to take the last step, you must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him; you must love him” (232). The difference between loving and obeying him is the difference between winning and losing. If one loves Big Brother then they will always look up to him and never question his authority compared to if one only obeyed Big Brother then the chance of someone disobeying or rebelling against Big Brother is possible. Winston and Julia’s conversatios

The words under the picture read “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” in all capitals. This phrase immediately establishes the power-distance relationship between the party and its members. All citizens are constantly being watched over and are powerless compared to the party. The word “watching” implies that all citizens are under scrutiny from big brother himself with the “mustachiod figure” playing the role of a “big brother”, watching over his citizens and controlling their actions and movements. Such a lack of freedom creates a stark contrast between normal people’s lives and the lives of Orwell’s characters, and therefore acts like a warning as to what might happen in the future if the rise of totalitarianism continued in Europe. Through this, Orwell is also criticizing this movement by highlighting its key disadvantages and drawbacks.

Big Brother knows this, which is why it tries to toil order to control everything it can. Big Brother even controls the propaganda put up for the war, in which one slogan said, "'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (37). Big Brother creates itself to be a God like figure, interminable and the most important aspect of citizens’ lives. They control their people down to their intense thoughts and feelings, as said by Winston, "The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world” (165). Big Brother creates rules and expectations to prevent people from feeling that Big Brother is absurd. They create laws such as the Anti Sex law, “What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship” (134). Big Brother’s strive for totalitarian power means that it is all Big Brother can focus on. They cannot worry about little things such as starving their entire population or creating a false image, all they can focus on is world domination. Big Brother’s demand for power makes it much more of a lesser value than the