Beyond Big Brother

Beyond Big Brother The novel 1984 by George Orwell is a political satire on Communist Russia and the Soviet Union; this concept is explored throughout the book with The Party, Oceanians totalitarian government that rules through fear and oppression of its citizens in similar ways as to what was happening in the real world at the time. When Orwell was writing 1984 in 1948 he was influenced by the information coming out about Stalinism and what the Soviet Union had really been doing. Because Orwell’s knew “Who controls the past controls the future,” a phrase repeated many times throughout 1984, the real-life tyrant Joseph Stalin a man infamous for changing the past to gain power in the present, there for altering history to set him on top in the future, was used as the model for the character Big Brother. “Soviet history books were rewritten to give him a more prominent role in the revolution and mythologize other aspects of his life,” (“Joseph Stalin”). This is an idea that is a key plot point in 1984, the book's protagonist Winston Smith works in the ministry of truth where his job is to alter historical documents and things of that nature in order to give Big Brother the godlike ability of predicting the future and never being wrong when he does so,
The soviets and the party rule through fear, encouraged spying, killing or enslaving traders, and oppressing the citizens of the society. It becomes apparent that George Orwell wrote 1984 not only in fear of the future but also in disgust of the