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George Orwell

Big Brother Is Watching You

`Big Brother ' is a fictional character in George Orwell 's dystopian novel 1984 . He is the mysterious dictator of Oceania . The citizens of Oceania are under continuous surveillance by the authorities of the They are continuously reminded of the fact that `Big Brother is watching you

However , the reality of this character is to be doubted and Orwell by a strategic use of language makes his existence an extremely ambiguous one . On the one hand he figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since

its very earliest days . His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties . On the other , as the protagonist observes he was first mentioned in the political scenario in the sixties and interestingly in the year 1984 , he appears to be a handsome man of forty-four . All these serve only to raise questions about the actuality of the Big Brother

However , when O 'Brien says that Big Brother can never die , and the book apparently written by the rebel Emanuel Goldstein states "nobody has ever seen Big Brother . He is a face on the hoardings , a voice on the telescreen . Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world . His function is to act as a focusing point for love , fear , and reverence , emotions , which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization " one realizes the truth about this character . Like everything else in the regime Big Brother is nothing but a construct of Newspeak

Newspeak , the language devised by the Party to manipulate and control the psychology of the masses , plays an intrinsic role in the presentation of Big Brother as a benevolent leader , loved and revered who protects the citizen from the big bad outside world . Just like Newspeak , Big Brother too , is a mind-control tool used to mask the truth , mislead and deceive people and lead them into accepting the party propaganda as the absolute truth . In this sense , Newspeak and Big Brother has similar functions in the structuring of the similar state and complements each other in reality

Works Cited

Orwell , George . Nineteen Eighty-Four . London : Penguin Books , 1990...

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