Identify and explain one important theme in three passages from Chapters one to seven in 1984 by George Orwell.

In theof
the book, the dominant theme of the overwhelming power of Big Brother is evident.   is the lens
through which we can better understand the power and totalizing control of Big Brother in
Oceania.  The opening description of the inner stairwell inside Victory Mansions conveys this
power:

The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was
thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times
on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed
from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you
about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.   (Ch.
1)

Even in something as small as a building stairwell,
the power of Big Brother is inescapable.  The poster, its eyes, and the caption are able to cast
a literal and figurative shadow on the life Winston leads and the lives of all the people of
Oceania.

In Chapter 2,