Characters Explained: 1984 - 'The Big Brother'
'The Big Brother'
'The Big Brother', totalitarian and authoritarian leader of 'The Party' is merely an invisible person throughout the book. We often come across with the character in book but don't get much knowledge about him except his face and his rules and regulations.
Big Brother's face is printed on party's banners everywhere. He is a person with big broad mustache and flat angry face. His portrait is painted at common hall of every ministry. He is a symbolic head of every party operations. He is everywhere on the paper but nowhere in presence. He is a person who order and under whose name the party actions are taken place. It is considered that every citizen of Oceania must love 'The Big Brother'.
Telescreens installed for surveillance of citizens has Big Brother's face on it. And voice coming from it is also considered as his. As a leader he knows that conquering Eastasia and Eurasia is not that easy so he has no ambitions to do so. But from constant warfare over remaining unconquered part of the world - Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong, it is clear that he wants to increase his influence on free world.
Everybody is forced to love big brother and hate Eastasia and Eurasia. For that purpose he has a planned two minute hate period and a hate week. In that period, they show people the inspiring patriotic videos so that they love Big Brother. This idea seems very powerful as it has a great influence on people's mind. Heavy-handed policies of Party, such as revising historical records, erasing existence of persons killed by Party and evil practices like 'vaporizing' are all conducted under his name.
Big Brother is the most mightful person in Oceania. Lots of years has passed since resolution and he must be a old man now or may be dead. It is also possible that he is merely a symbolic head of party and not a person. Whatever it may be, but he is a force that can bend Oceania the way he want.
Big Brother's face is printed on party's banners everywhere. He is a person with big broad mustache and flat angry face. His portrait is painted at common hall of every ministry. He is a symbolic head of every party operations. He is everywhere on the paper but nowhere in presence. He is a person who order and under whose name the party actions are taken place. It is considered that every citizen of Oceania must love 'The Big Brother'.
Telescreens installed for surveillance of citizens has Big Brother's face on it. And voice coming from it is also considered as his. As a leader he knows that conquering Eastasia and Eurasia is not that easy so he has no ambitions to do so. But from constant warfare over remaining unconquered part of the world - Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong, it is clear that he wants to increase his influence on free world.
Everybody is forced to love big brother and hate Eastasia and Eurasia. For that purpose he has a planned two minute hate period and a hate week. In that period, they show people the inspiring patriotic videos so that they love Big Brother. This idea seems very powerful as it has a great influence on people's mind. Heavy-handed policies of Party, such as revising historical records, erasing existence of persons killed by Party and evil practices like 'vaporizing' are all conducted under his name.
Big Brother is the most mightful person in Oceania. Lots of years has passed since resolution and he must be a old man now or may be dead. It is also possible that he is merely a symbolic head of party and not a person. Whatever it may be, but he is a force that can bend Oceania the way he want.
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