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What Is Big Brother's Role In The Novel 1984

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Do you ever feel like you're being watched by the government?The novel 1984 by George Orwell is about a man named Winston that lived and a Society where the government called big brother’s stride to regularly every aspect of public and private life.In this novel the author Orwell Portray the perfect totalitarian society.The party controls all information and history of the town. The party also manipulated the minds of the children and the town.Big brother’s role and Oceania were to control any and everyone and the town.The effect big brother has on Winston is he wanted to control him physically and mentally.Winston is obsessed with both O’Brien which is apart of the government and big brother and the same way. Big brother’s role …show more content…

The struggle between O'Brien and Winston at the end. O'Brien is attempting to condition Winston into loving big brother but Winston's resistance lies in the fact that big brother may be able to control people but they cannot control his thoughts. For Example “He sat back in his chair, slightly ashamed of himself, and laid down the pen.The next moment he started violently.There was a knocking at the door.Already! He sat as still as a mouse, in the futile hope that whoever it was might go away after a single attempt. But no, the knocking was repeated. The worst thing of all would be to delay. His heart was thumping like a drum, but his face, from long habit, was probably expressionless. He got up and moved heavily towards the door.As he put his hand to the door-knob Winston saw that he had left the diary open on the table. DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER was written all over it, in letters almost big enough to be legible across the room. It was an inconceivably stupid thing to have done. But, he realized, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.He drew in his breath and opened the door. Instantly a warm wave of relief flowed through him. A colourless, crushed-looking

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