Big Brother Run Things Book Report

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#1 "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or withing the range of a telescreen. The Smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconcious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself anything that carried with it the suggestion to abnormality, of having something to hide".(65) The way Big Brother run things reminds me of USSR during Stalins time, which was from 1941 to 1953. Much like in the book any who could oppse Stalin or the Communist Party would be send to camps in Siberia or any other ran down place of USSR. Many people would get shot out in the streets because they were smart and could think for themselves. What I find intersing is that the book was written in 1948, and Staling was at his best at the time. Maybe Orwels took Stalins way of ruling and used it in the book because they are very simillar. #2 "Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The…show more content…
The messages he had received reffered to artciles or new items which for one reason or another it was necessart to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify".(41) This, again, is an exaple of how control is one of the themes of in the novel. Through controlling the past, Big Brother controlled the present and the furutre. Anything that did not come true or could not be completed by the goverment is simply erased from the records. This is very similar to what Nazi Germany was doing at the very end of World War II, they burned all the records with the names of the people that they have killed. If there are no records of the people ever being existed then the thing never happened which means Hollocust never

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