Big Brother 1984

In the novel, 1984, Big Brother is shown on signs and posters in nearly every location in Oceania. He is depicted by the posters by being approximately 45 years old, having an enormous and ruggedly handsome face, and luscious, heavy, and black mustache. Furthermore, Big Brother has an immense significance in the book due to his figurehead role and power. For instance, he is the leader of the powerful Inner Party, which make up about two percent of the population and monitor people by having strict laws and surveillance by using telescreens. They observe outer-party people, including Winston Smith, and exploit them using propaganda. Therefore, many aspects such as thoughts, actions against the party, food, exercise, knowledge, language, and

According to most signs prevalent in Oceania, Big Brother watches and monitors the population. Presumably, Big Brother is in charge of the immensely powerful Inner Party, which has been in control of the population of Oceania. In Book 3, Winston asks O’Brien, a deceptive member of the Inner Party, about the reason behind the actions of the totalitarian and detrimental government. It was finally disclosed that the Inner Party, which is led by the symbol of Big Brother, are monitoring people and controlling Oceania only to gain power. The Inner Party and Big Brother have meticulously articulated a 93-year old strategy to gain more power by creating specific ministries, a “newspeak” language, and diminishing thoughts against the government. Ultimately, Big Brother has a king-like presence or a significant figure-head role because he has a vital relation with the Inner Party, which have monitored and manipulated the society in Oceania, along with

The actions of 1984 are a predictions about what could occur with a communist government similar to Germany’s and Russia’s during the early 20th century and during World War II. Ironically, Orwell’s prediction of a totalitarian government and society in the novel are appallingly similar to our contemporary society. In 1984, the totalitarian government have established a Ministry of Truth, which is concerned with news, a Ministry of Peace, which is concerned with war, Ministry of Love, which “maintains” law and order, and a Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. By establishing these ministries, the government can control and exploit four different aspects of society, which helped contribute the government achieve their goals of gaining power. Similarly, in our modern society, the government controls the mainstream media, which is concerned with news and other affairs and often misinforms people by spreading their political beliefs. Essentially, people’s thoughts are being exploited and changed by propaganda. Another similarity, is the constant surveillance in the public and in homes. In 1984, the society, specific the Outer-Party members, are always monitored by telescreens in their homes and in public, which cannot be turned off, unless you were an Inner-Party member such as O’Brien. For