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Big Brother In George Orwell's 1984

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In the beginning of the book Winston Smith, the main character, arrives to his apartment. As Winston walks in the hallway, sidewalk, or anywhere the sign Big Brother Is Watching You is literally everywhere. I’m assuming “Big Brother” is the government watching over the “Little Brother” or better known as Winston. As I continue to read and get a better understanding of Winston I can pick up that he is grim and totalitarian. Winston starts his “diary” off by writing down how he fortunate that his television is in the corner of the apartment, because it allows him to be viewed all day by the authorities or Big Brother. All of a sudden he stops and thinks of why he is writing and to who he is writing too, kinda strange. During his thought process to who he is writing …show more content…

He finally moves on to a different topic, the environment of which he is currently living it. When all of a sudden he is interrupted by a knocking on his door. The next chapter reveals the knocking was his neighbor, Mrs. Parsons, who need help unclogging her toilet. Winston argrees to help her and come across her children who call him a traitor, wonder why? After unclogging the toilet he gets back to writing in his diary by continuing the dream of O’Brien. Maybe this dream foreshadows what will take place later in the book. He then recalls a dream seven years earlier in which a voice said to him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." After thinking about O’Brien he redirects his attention to the belief his death has to do with the Thought Police. In Chapter Three, it begins with Winston dreaming about his mother and sister's death, how did they die? He then starts blaming himself for the death of his two beloved ones. All of sudden the dream setting changes to the "Golden Country," and he imagines the dark-haired girl there. (strange girl that was following

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