Who Behinds
Big Brothers?
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| tenth printing of 1984, in December 1953 |
When
I read this book, I wondered and thought that who was behind the screen? Everybody in this book acting as actors and
actress played in different role and they were seemed very important
part of
their work. But the author never mentioned about the master mind behind
the
stage or about the director who controlled all the players of his story.
I
thought I could find the Master Mind after finished this novel?
George
Orwell wrote this book in 1949 and the story seemed that he foretold
what would
happen in 1984. In this story, ‘posters the party leader, Big Brother,
bearing
the caption BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU attack the landscape, while the
telescreen all over the places monitors the private and public lives of
the
public.’
We
easily see in the novel the social class system is threefold: the upper
class, the
middle-class and the lower class, who make up 85% of the population and
represent the working class. They played their parts respectfully and
obediently under the rule of the government. But we never see the
superior of
the government. The party seemed to be the players of very important
parts, but
they were not the true authorities. The members of the party were just
the
players of unseen leader. The party who controls the population through
four
important government ministries: Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Plenty,
Ministry of Love and the Ministry of Truth. I never saw the true
director
behind the screen until I finished the novel.
We
will never know the Big Brotherhood really exists or alive until the
story ends.
It remains an unsolvable riddle in the reader’s mind. The torture
session,
imprisonment, dead sentences using from the Brotherhood methods passed
through
all the prisoners forced to betray their love and attachment without
regret. ‘Learning,
understand and acceptance’ is the only solution to escape from the
torture.
Author’s
Objective
It
might be reminded the reader the Party really exists in the world or we
could
find out there might be Master Mind who rule the world without knowing
his
identity to the people? The author only portrayed how the system played
by the
Big Brother governed the country.
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George Orwell(1903-1950)
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The
author asked this question to the reader through reading his novel until
the
end as ‘Which One Will YOU Be In The Year 1984?’ He said ‘There wasn’t
be much choice,
of course, if this book’s predictions turn out to be true.
….’ The reader wondered which one will I be
in the year 1984?
What
Will Be, Will Be
If
his predictions be still true,……. which one Are You in this modern
world? According
to the George Orwell’ novel, you are probably one of the following four
types:
as you are considered as a working class that you are fed lies from the
Ministry of Truth? or you are ready to give your life for Big Brother,
the
leader you have never even seen that you are considered as a police
guard? or you
are considered as a fresh and blood robot with a push-button brain? or
finally you
are considered as doing your duty from birth without fail and your duty
will be
to smother all human emotion?
Epilogue
George
Orwell wrote this novel in 1949 and he declared that his novel was ‘A
prophecy
of the Future or coming 1984.’ My grandmother, Khin Myo Chit translated
this
novel in 1984. But unfortunately her translated book was not allowed to
appear.
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