Orwell’s first socialist book was an original and unorthodox politicaltreatisetitledThe Road to Wigan Pier(1937). It begins by describing his experiences when he went to live among thedestituteand unemployed miners of northern England, sharing and observing their lives; it ends in a series of ...
Big Brother, fictional character, the dictator of the totalitarian empire of Oceania in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) by George Orwell. Though Big Brother does not appear directly in the story, his presence permeates Oceania’s bleak society. Ubi