the Information area for the BBC. This department was headed by a man named Brendan Bracken, who was called ‘B.B.’ ( Gardner 112). Big Brother was one of the many propaganda tools used in 1984. The face of Big Brother is used to promote the ideal man, one who is tall and muscular living in a perfect world. Big Brother represents Stalin, Lenin, and Hitler. All three were totalitarian figures who frightened all as the world saw the horror of their powers. Posters of these men were hung all over their countries to give the effect that you could not escape their presence. Hence the term in 1984, “Big Brother is Watching”. Orwell may have been thinking about figures in certain religious faiths when he drew Big Brother. The mysterious, powerful, God-like figure who sees and knows everything--but never appears in person. The Hate Week Rallies are a reference to Hitler’s Nuremberg Rallies, in which the presenters brought the crowd to a hysteria and hatred of Jews. Goldstein being used at these hate speeches represents the conspiracy against the Jews and Stalin’s hatred toward Trotsky. Both parties were able to brainwash children into believing the ideals the totalitarian parties through the Hitler Youth Squad and Soviet Young Pioneers. (Meyers 121) Winston and Julia’s attire of the blue overalls represent the appearance of many English civilians, but also the Bolsheviks working attire. The Three Year Plans are similar to Stalin’s Five Year Plans. (Meyers 122) The function of Room 101 was to eradicate every possibility of competing passion. It goes along the with the saying, “Thou shalt love thy God with thy hole heart and thy hole mind, no corner however tiny reserved for inferior loyalties.” (Reilly 272) In Room 101, a person learned to value God/Big Brother above everything else and devote their life to them. Orwell leaves the reader...
