Big Brother

Big Brother (which means Big brother ) is a Personnage of fiction, created by the journalist and British writer George Orwell for her Romance 1984 published in 1949.

Big Brother is the emblem of the “Party”, of which he is the creator, to which the citizens of “Océania” dedicate a Culte of the personality. In all the streets, it is represented on posters by a male face man with a moustache, fixing the passer by in the eyes, in an expression which wants to be reassuring at the same time and severe. It is omnipresent in the universe of 1984 , as well on the leaflets as on the “large-sized telescreens” of the private residences, or at the meetings of mass of the Party during which is stressed (“B.B, B.B, B.B”). It is metamorphosed in a referent for all, in a total and complete incarnation of the Party. It becomes the Party. The name of Big Brother even is to him a paradox, just like the names of the ministries océaniens. Angsoc preaches a disintegration of the family core indeed, by encouraging the children to denounce their parents, or by inhibiting any love within a couple with the profit to have it to procreate for the Party. It is thus paradoxical that its name is “ Big brother ”, which is an image normally intended to encourage the love within a famille.
A famous sentence remained about it: Big brother is watching you ( Big brother looks at you ). This expression denounces the omnipresence of the vidéos monitoring or voyeurism, inter alia.

In fact, one discovers at the end of the novel that Big Brother does not exist as an human being (from the internal point of view to the novel). It is only one figure of propaganda, they are the members of the interior Party who direct.

Later uses

Following the success of the novel, Big Brother became the representation of the police State and the loss of the individual rights of the population in the Anglo-Saxon Popular culture. As follows:

Each year, International Privacy and its partners decree, in ten country, Big Brother Awards at the institutions, companies or people being distinguished by their contempt from the basic right to the private life or by their promotion of the monitoring and the control of the individuals;
Big Brother and The Holding Company is the name of the first group of Janis Joplin, before it launches out in solo; the name of the group is surely inspired by 1984 ;
Big Brother is also the name of a Logiciel of Monitoring of waiters in real-time on Internet: ;
Big Brother became the name of a European play of Télévision reality, produced by the company Endemol and adapted in France under the name of Loft Story (on M6) then of Nice People (on TF1) of the Colocataires (M6) or very recently Secret Story (on TF1), where the candidates lived during several weeks under the eye of the cameras;
Bernard Lavilliers was inspired some for a song, entitled Big Brother ;
Masnada made in the same way in its album Maître of I published in 2004.
Big Brother was more recently associated with Microsoft, and its so-called desire to want to supervise the users of its OS Windows.
Plus recently Big Brother was identified with Google because of the monitoring than he exerts on his users considered to be sometimes excessive.
In its Karma Song Organizes (Police force of the thought), the Radiohead group takes as a starting point the novel 1984

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