Big Party's Influence In Big Brother

Big Brother’s Influence In the novel Big Brother plays the role of not only a leader but the controller. He is not like a president that people view as a political leader that has ideas to help the country, but more like a leader who controls everything you do, when you do it, and how it should be done. Whether or not the citizens realize what Big Brother really controls and how much power he actually possesses doesn’t change the fact that his main role is the controller. Big Brother himself may not possess all the power but the Party does. Big Brother is an icon for the party. He is the one that all the people look at and think of when their government is involved. He is the one that many people who are smart enough to question the laws,
have emotion, and know that something is wrong, fear. Big brother is the controlling, fearful, leader icon of the Party. Big Brother’s affect on the people is what gives the Party its power.
The Party has the control to make you do, say, and even feel whatever they want you to. They have deleted the past and installed fear into the lives of the people. Many of them think their society is fine and that’s the way that they are supposed to live. Big Brother and the party have created such a dystopia that everyone is brainwashed into what is happening is ok. In order for the Party to do that they needed a leader, a figure head, someone to tell the people exactly what they wanted to hear whether it was the truth or not. That’s where Big Brother came in, he was like their Hitler. Hitler was a totalitarian leader, he told the people of Germany what they wanted to hear, and he made them think they lived in a utopia, when in reality they were the farthest from it. Big Brother was the same thing, a leader who told the people what they thought they wanted to hear. He filled them up with useless information to make them think they knew everything they needed to. It was just another way Big Brother and the Party gained complete
control. Unlike many of the people Big Brother and the Party were able to fool, Winston was part of the group of people that knew something was wrong.
They knew they did not live in a perfect world. Even though Big Brother did not fool Winston, he still had a major affect on him. Big Brother was the reason Winston lived in fear. Winston knew that he was committing a thought crime and what the thought police would do to him if he was caught, but he just could not keep himself from wanting to rebel. He had to get it out and that’s why he started to write in his journal. He knew the moment he began committing the ‘crimes’ he would not be able to stop. Everything he did he had to do in fear of Big Brother and the Party. He knew he could be erased from existence but he could not help it. Big Brother was the reason Winston was unable to remember his past for such a long time, and unable to live with emotion and happiness. Just like all the other citizens Big Brother deprived Winston of living a normal life. That alone was a big affect Big Brother had on Winston but the constant fear and punishment once he got caught is
another. Even though Winston does fear Big Brother he gets careless with his secrecy. Big Brother instills fear into Winston the whole time, but as Winston starts getting away with the things he’s doing with Julia he gets more careless which ultimately leads to Big Brother and the party catching him. Before Winston got caught he seemed to feel less intimidated by the power of the Party and Big Brother. He got away with more and more and began to trust and it seemed to eliminate a lot of power from the Party. However as soon as Winston was caught all that fear and power and control came rushing back just as everything came crashing down. The role of Big Brother is always stronger. Even though Winston constantly fears Big Brother he does have an obsession with him. It is not the kind of obsession of lust but an obsession of curiosity. Winston is very curious about Big Brother and who he really is and just how big of a role in the Party he actually plays. Winston does have a similar obsession with O’Brien but at the same time he does not. He is obsessed with O’Brien because he is curious about his rebellion he feels like O’Brien is just like him, that he wants to rebel and he knows so much about the Party. So Winston is curious about his knowledge and his rebellion. However with Big Brother he is only curious about his power and his knowledge, not his rebellion or being anything like him. There are some similar aspects of his obsession with both Big Brother and O’Brien as well as differences but they are mainly the same, they are both obsessions for the same reason. To be able to rebel, and with their knowledge Winston would be able to do so. Any way you look at it Big Brother has a major affect on everyone in the story. He may not have all the power but he is the icon of the Party. He instills fear into everyone with all the laws and actions he has supposedly taken. Winston fears him as well as being curious about him. Big Brother has affected everyone in the society in different ways. Newspeak, Double think, and two minutes hate, are all examples of the power of Big Brother. He is able to say one thing one minute and change your mind the next. He has so much control over them that they do not even question when he tells them they are at war. Everything Big Brother does he does to control the people, and he succeeds.