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1984

In George Orwell's 1984, the Party, the government of Oceania, has many slogans. One of the sayings is "Big Brother Is Watching You". Despite the fact that the slogan is only mentioned a few times throughout the novel, it embodies the government that Orwell has created.

We first learn of the slogan when the setting is described on the first page of the book. Orwell depicts, in explicit detail, the sights, sounds, and smells of Oceania. When illustrating the hallways of Victory Mansions, Winston Smith's and other members of the Party's apartment complex, Orwell writes:

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the

enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures

which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you

move. Big Brother Is Watching You, the caption beneath it ran

(5).

This poster shows Big Brother as having a face. Big Brother was not an individual person so he did not have a "face". The face, however,......


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