LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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modern man’s enslavement to economy
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modern man’s enslavement to politics
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modern man’s enslavement to mass media
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Big Brother represents the totalitarian government of Oceania, which is controlled by the Party and therefore synonymous with it. Winston learns in Goldstein’s book that Big Brother is not a real person but an invention of the Party that functions as a focus for the people’s feelings of reverence and fear.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell created “Big Brother” and, with it, the perfect metaphor for Big Tech. Orwell’s “telescreens, ” which can’t be switched off and which record every conversation and monitor every movement of his characters, bear striking resemblance to our smartphones.
Detailed explanation-3: -Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell’s dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling party, Ingsoc, wields total power “for its own sake” over the inhabitants.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the novel “1984”, George Orwell builds a strong media system as a tool for the party to suppress and prevent class conflicts: it gives the public and outer party members an illusion of truth, while maintain their attention distracted from what is truly happening.