Big Brother
Possibly fictional figurehead of the Party in Oceania. Big Brother represents totalitarian authority, surveillance state, and the leader-as-symbol. His omnipresent posters (Big Brother is watching you) symbolize constant monitoring and the impossibility of privacy or independent thought under tyranny.
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