Analysis Of The Article 'Big Brother'

In the oppressive, dystopian society of Oceania in the novel 1984, the Party has complete control over thoughts, language, and even the personal lives of Oceanians. The character, Big Brother, is likely a fictional character created by the Party, the most elite and powerful in this authoritarian society ruling over the gullible and brainwashed people of AirStrip One (today known as England). This is monitored with intense and invasive surveillance done through citizens and technology, impeding the character development of the inhabitants of Oceania. George Orwell uses the minor, yet significant character of Big Brother to represent the motif of a dictatorship as well as the motif of surveillance; this totalitarian leader is indirectly

1984 by George Orwell is a novel set in a dystopian near-future London, the chief city of Airstrip One, Oceania. The people in Oceania are under the control of the Party. Big Brother, or BB, is the face of the Party and the leader of this great power that rules over Oceania. He is a dominant figure who acts as a trustworthy entity for the people he governs, but ironically is their worst enemy in many ways. His posters, captioned “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, can be seen everywhere in the streets of London. These posters give the reader a physical description of what one can imagine Big Brother to look like. He is a man of about forty-five with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features that make him look scary but leader-like. Most people in this society are unaware of how they are brainwashed and controlled by the Party. Big Brother controls Oceania with various carefully designed techniques, some of which are: keeping the Outer Party in control with the 24-hour surveillance, Reality Control and by controlling the proles -- by keeping them ignorant and luring them through privileges.

This would make things different because if a student knew that they were getting monitored then they would not post what they usually would. The students would not post the same stuff because they know that if they did and the school district saw it and considered it to be a threat or to be dangerous or inappropriate then they would get in trouble. The school district watching the students could be beneficial because then students would possibly stop saying rude and degrading things to each other and start being more friendly towards each other. If the students were more friendly there would more than likely be a lower suicide rate and there would be less

Students can send cruel comments through texts and emails instead of doing it in person. A whole group of students can send anonymous messages and slander through Facebook or YouTube. The home address or cell phone number of the victim can be posted online. Videos and pictures of an individual during a vulnerable or intimate time in their life can be used on the internet to continue their humiliation for years to come. Victims are no longer safe in their own home because their bullies can follow them online. In addition, teachers cannot witness these online altercations like they could with altercations in a classroom. Being unable to track student behavior online, instructors could no longer report activity unless it occurred in their presence or they are notified by a student. School boards cannot respond to these internet attacks with their sweeping policies because they did not apply to off campus situations. Federal laws provided little relief. “In January 2006, the United States made it a federal crime to harass people on the internet.—but the law applied only to people over the age of eighteen.”(Klein 119-120) Cyber-bullies in secondary school could commit acts of aggression without worries of repercussion. If caught, online abuser could evoke their first amendment rights, which defendsfreedom of speech. No one willing to stop these attackers would know what was happening until it was too late for the

Everyday technology is advancing and has become part of people’s everyday life, from phones, cars, computers, and even the light switches in a room. With all this technology, it would be easy to use it for other things then what they were intended for. For example what if someone wanted to control what another person could do such as sleeping or going places. It would not not be that hard to try and control another human being, or even worse being watched every single moment of everyday for the rest of their life. That idea is not as farfetched as it may seem now with even more phones, computers, televisions and cameras in general. Technology is taking humanity nearer and nearer to world of Big Brother and the worse part is that if they are not careful, Big Brother could raise without any citizen ever knowing.

In the book 1984,by George Orwell, The main character Winston has a love affair with a girl named Julia.Their leader Big Brother controls all and knows all. They later get caught by the thought police and put through extreme conditions to reduce them to their core. Big Brother uses violence, manipulation, and propaganda to brainwash and control the perceptions of “his” citizens therefore , indicating it is possible to change people’s reality.

Today, in the society that we live in, many teens tend to expose their life on social media. They post inappropriate pictures of themselves, google things that aren’t for their age, and sometimes even cyberbully. In the article, “At Some Schools, ‘Big Brother is Watching’”, Kelly Wallace wrote about some unfortunate things that have occurred on social media. The article mentions ways that spying on a kid can help prevent bullying and suicide thoughts. In her article, she includes how the privacy of a student on social media is completely taken away. Wallace believes that the district should not be able to view anything that a teen publishes online. In my opinion, Wallace is correct because everyone has the right to privacy and students should

The passages depict an impression of an unpleasant society, which is politically undesirable by the audience. Although the People of the nation are blinded by the truth, the dystopian society can be confirmed as the political leader promotes violent behaviors, negatively influences the People’s thoughts, leading to the People to contribute in the same manner.

This problem has become more pressing and has been a greater focus in the media. Social media has also brought the issue to the forefront in the last several years and, itself, plays a role in today’s age of bullying, cyber bullying. The Matt Epling Safe School Law (2011/2014) was amended in 2014 to add a section specifically directed at cyberbullying. The legislation identifies bullying as anything that is composed, spoken, acted out, or conveyed electronically. These acts are said to disrupt educational opportunity, impart emotional disturbances, influence physical and mental health, and/or impact the daily functioning of the educational institution (Matt Epling Safe School Law, 2011/2014). These definitions demonstrate the severity of the social problem,

A young boy was once sitting on his computer when he saw an email from one of his peers. He opened the email, and soon enough realized he was being bullied. However, the young boy let the cyber-bullying get out of control. His parents told the school about it, but there was nothing they could do. The boy had to go to a new school where he wouldn’t be bullied. There are many problems like this that get out of hand, so much that the school can do nothing to help. Many people blame the school for not helping, when there is nothing they can do about it. Therefore, schools do not have the responsibility to respond to and protect students from the challenge of cyber-bullying, even if it’s off campus.

Schools should not get involved in students’ outside lives. The things that students post on the internet should be their business; therefore, the results of the bullying should be handled by parents or someone related to the situation. Once the children exit the doors, the school is no longer responsible for them. In Pennsylvania, a school suspended J.S. for making a MySpace profile mocking her principal. After it was posted, some students were conversing over the profile. That specific teacher went to the principal that the profile concerned and told him he had several students discussing it and were disrupting the class. But then after, he made himself

Out of the 1,454 students, seventy-three percent of them were bullied online at least once over a period of twelve months. Of those students who were bullied, fifty-one percent of them said that the person who bullied them was a peer of theirs (Wolpert). Professor of psychology and the author of the study, Jaana Juvonen, said that because students do not talk about what is going on with their parents or teachers because they are scared they might get in trouble, or because they think they have to learn how to deal with it by themselves “they suffer in silence” (Wolpert). Therefore, it “interferes with the ability to learn and makes many students want to withdraw” (Wolpert). This shows us what effects bullying done outside of the school has on students, during school hours and what that can lead to (dropping out of school). If public high schools monitored off campus cyber bullying it would make students, feel safer because they would know that someone is watching out for them and they do not have to deal with the problem by themselves. This would lead to students feeling more comfortable at school instead of fearing school, and providing a safer environment for students to learn in, and therefore keep them in school.

In the appendix of George Orwell’s 1984, “The Principles of Newspeak,” it is written in past tense. This shows readers that Big Brother had fallen, perhaps fallen quite hard. So, how did this all-knowing, all-seeing, immortal concept of Big Brother fall from power? In Emmanuel Goldstein’s or maybe even O'Brien and the Inner Party’s, The Principles and Practices of Oligarchical Collectivism, its demonstrates the four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Although three of them seem probable, there is one that truly stood out, “..., or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt.” I believe that this is going to cause the fall of Big Brother because the government is inefficient, and as Winston says, “If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”

The most recent school shooting at a high school in Spokane, Washington killed one student and injured three others is just one recent example of the growing apprehensions in school violence (Chavez). The shooter’s action wasn’t specific to any particular students, but according to a department affidavit: “Instead he’d come to teach everyone a lesson about what happens when you bully others.” (Chavez). Although the victim, Sam Strahan, attempted to intervene and stop the school shooting, monitoring hallways and classrooms could have possibly prevented this school shooting by stopping and identifying the school bullying before it escalated. Having a presence of hallway and classroom monitoring acts as an additional authoritative figure when faculty may not be visually present at the time of any inappropriate event. That figure could halt the action of future bullying, vandalism or theft that may lead to future violent

What role does big brother play in the novel and what effect does he have on Winston?