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Fiction

Big Brother

The emblem of the dictator who watches every citizen. Whether he exists at all is unknown, yet his eye is everywhere. Posters throughout the city carry the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”

Source

1984 George Orwell / 1949

A near future ruled by a totalitarian state. The Party controls even people’s words and memories, watching thought itself in the name of Big Brother. It follows the small rebellion of Winston, a low-ranking Party member — a founding work of dystopian fiction.