Big Brother In The Government's Totalitarianism In 1984 By George Orwell

In the novel of 1984 by George Orwell, citizens of Oceania, constantly live in fear of saying, doing or thinking of anything that is socially unacceptable in their everyday lives through an endless surveillance without being aware of it. The country venerates the idol known as Big Brother in the government’s hierarchy structure, and has information that is strictly measured and filtered to benefit the one-party system. Orwell’s 1984 attacks the totalitarianism of the East while warning the West of its consequences.
In assurance to eliminate any effort of insurrection, citizens of Oceania were under surveillance by the government around the clock. Oceania’s law enforcement was known, as the thought police, who were undercover police who convicted
Surveillance was so aggressive; that even children were to report their parents of any socially unaccepted activity. Children were trained to be devoted to the party, they were encouraged to eavesdrop and denounce their family. To frighten all citizens from disobeying or rebelling from the party, citizens were threatened to be vaporized or sent to room 101. It was the most frightening thought of the Oceania citizens. People simply disappeared during the night, their name was removed from the registers, and every record of them was wiped out (Orwell 22). “[They] were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the word” (Orwell 22). Room 101 was the definition of physical and mental violence that every citizen feared. “The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.” (Orwell 310) The threats of the party dictated the citizens’ actions and thoughts. This fear and dictatorship to eliminate any effort of insurrection portrayed in 1984 is a satire to what was actually occurring in Stalin’s Russia in the 20th century. Stalin developed a “personal cult” (Life in USSR under Stalin) which dictated the ways every Russian looked, acted and spoke. Both children and adults were taught to be devoted to the communism, if objectified, punishment would be given. Having all potential betrayers executed or sent to labor camps (Joseph Stalin). Stalin’s army and workers, like educated were forced to enforce the idolizing of Stalin. Identical to Oceania, where the idolizing of
That is why, in The Ministry of Truth, O’Brien’s job is to edit all the records of history to assure that The Party is well portrayed. Making the dictating of the present much easier when molding the past to The Party’s advantage. Ironically defeating the purpose of naming it The Ministry of Truth. Exemplifying the limits they will cross to gain the power and dictate the citizens of Oceania. Just like Ampleforth’s job, which is also to illuminate The Party by rewriting politically and ideologically objectionable Old speak poems. In the Records Department, their job was to reconstruct the past as well by sending citizens of Oceania’s films, telescreen programs, films, novels and plays who informed the citizens of the ideal past created by The Party (Orwell 50). Syme was hired to work on writing the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary for Oceania. This was their vocabulary was very limited, making expressing emotions very complex. On the telescreens propaganda in favor of The Party is shown. In order to remind Oceania’s citizens what The Party is all about, and no matter how smart anyone thinks they are they will get caught. Betrayal or rebellion is never the right action, or even thought. Stalin stole just as many human rights to the Russians than The Party from the Oceania citizens. An example of the limiting of the information provided to the Russian citizens, any article printed had to be in the manner, which glorified Stalin (Life in USSR