Big Brother Is Watching You Analysis

“Big Brother Is Watching You”(2) The book 1984 the government controls everyone
physically and mentally. Fear is used as a control tool like the war that is going on. Torture makes people in so much pain they will say what they need to say to make the suffering end. Two minutes of hate is when people are forced to watch a film about their enemy, and they have to express their hate out loud. The party maintains control by using fear, torture, and two minutes of hate.
Fear is used to control society by making people scared to break laws because they do not know what would happen to them if they did. An example of this is the war that is going on against Eastasia. ”Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been

at war”(32) Winston could not remember a time without war, so people thinks that the government is protecting them from Eastasia and no one would turn against their protector. Parents would fear their own children because they worked for the government as spies. “”It was my little daughter,” said Parsons”(233) Mr. Parsons was turned in by his daughter be she heard him say “Down With Big Brother”(233) when he was sleeping. They also use room 101 as a fear tactic but also torture.
Torture is used to force someone to believe something that may not be true. “Then almost without a pause he wrote beneath it: TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE.”(277) By torturing winston they made him believe that two plus two equals five. He wrote this himself after they were done torturing him that day. Room 101 is a fear a torture tactic. It is supposed to hold what you fear most in life. For Winston it was rats that they strapped to his face and he started begging them to do it to Julia. "Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her.”(286)
Two minutes of hate is an everyday activity that everyone participates in. It is a film that depicts the enemy of Oceania. Everyone must show their towards the enemy. “The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure.”(12) It makes people relieve some of their anger that is built up inside of them. It also makes less hatred to Big Brother in the end. Some present day politicians will make up an enemy for people to hate more than they the politician. It was used to brainwash people only to hate the enemy and not Big Brother.
The government controls everyone physically and mentally. Fear is a control tool . Torture makes people believe in whatever they want. Two minutes of hate is when people watch a film about their enemy. The party maintains control by using fear, torture, and two minutes of hate.