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The Leader Of Big Brother In 1984 By George Orwell

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Big Brother, being known as a large yet an infamous figure in the book, 1984 by George Orwell is a neglectful and controlling leader. Big Brother is a lying, manipulative figure who uses fear, war, and the simple minds of its society to brainwash them and force them to follow it and its ways. Using the party, the government is constantly watching people through screens, forcing them to hate the political enemies. Big Brother may be just a political image out of a book, but in the world, there have been, and still are leaders who will take advantage out of the idea that their people are scared. Their people are scared, and in need of guidance so these leaders use the fear and sense of hopelessness and control their people, using lies and faults of these opposing sides. One of these leaders, is Kim Jong Un the leader of North Korea.
Kim Jong Un has become the supreme leader of North Korea since 2011 a descendent of the Kim family who has been running North Korea for seven whole decades. Kim Jong Un is a very strict, harsh, and neglectful leader. He is known to be the country’s first leader since North Korea had been founded. Kim Jong Un was known to have succeeded his father as supreme leader back in 2011, but there is not a lot known about Kim Jong Un and his actions in North Korea… Just as not much was known of the political figure of Oceana, Big Brother. These two supreme leaders of their countries and lands share so many similarities that they could even be related, it’s

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