"Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating , in doors or out of doors, in bath or in bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." (27)
God. That is who "Big Brother" seems to resemble in Orwell's novel, but in a much less spiritual way. He watches you at all times, and has ways of prying your thoughts out of your head, because of being somewhat limited to entry. People would make confessions in the old days about sins that they had committed and then were relieved. However, in Oceania, if people are discovered by Junior Spies or the ThoughtPolice of being atheistic or utterly against the "religion," then they are condemned. Some people that do not believe in the system pretend that they do, because of the judgment, whether it be God or the ThoughPolice.
check for typos; what might be another term if not God? I like that you seem to be aligning Big Brother with an Old Testament, vengeful, angry God.
ReplyDeleteWhy does Orwell give Big Brother this apparent omnipotence? What might his bigger message be? (Especially when one considers that those you believe will be treated better than those who do not believe.)