Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

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The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

According to Garraty's father, he is " a society-supported sociopath ", and he bears a strong physical resemblance to depictions of Big Brother from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Critics often dub CCTV as " Big Brother surveillance ", a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which featured a two-way telescreen in every home through which The Party would monitor the populace.

The village is also mentioned in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou starring George Clooney in a lead role.

He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.

Gosden voiced the characters " Amos ", " George ' Kingfish ' Stevens ", " Lightning ", " Brother Crawford ", and some dozen other characters.

They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* George Eliot-" Brother Jacob "

Big Brother ( 1984 ) | Big Brother's face looms on giant telescreens in Victory Square in Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( film ) | 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

It is said that George Washington often uttered the words: " We must consult Brother Jonathan " when faced with a difficult question ; however, that origin is doubtful, as neither man made reference to the story during their lifetimes and the first appearance of the story has been traced to the mid-19th century, long after their deaths.

In 2006 Armstrong launched a petition on behalf of the Bethnal Green and Bow Labour Party against Respect MP George Galloway's participation in Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother.

0083, he gets an invitation by George Miguel ( Brother of Nanai ) to join a paramilitary spacenoid organization within the Earth Federation Force.

But I'm bankin ' on the ATU, bankin ' on the ATU, I'm bankin ' on the ATU, Brother George is gonna see me through.

* George Johnston – Author of the Miles Franklin Award winning novel My Brother Jack.

Released during the prominent gangsta era of West Coast hip hop, Innercity Griots, along with albums such as The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde and Del tha Funkee Homosapien's I Wish My Brother George Was Here, established an acclaimed era of alternative hip hop in California.

George Edward Smock ( b. January 4, 1943 ), better known as Brother Jed, or Jed Smock, is an American evangelist whose ministry is concentrated on college campuses.

In January 2000 he likened the Labour party to Big Brother in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and accused prime minister Tony Blair of being a " control freak ".

Rollo Duke of Normandy, also known as The Bloody Brother, is a play written in collaboration by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

George often refers to this calling himself " God's Bungler ", in reference to Brother Andrew, " God's Smuggler ".

In 1973, Jones published an animal-fantasy allegory in the dystopian George Orwell mode titled " Brother Dodo's Revenge " in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

In 1991, with the help of Ice Cube, Del released his first solo album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here, at the age of 18.

Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

As Brother John Sellers sang five `` blues '' to the guitar and drum accompaniments of Bruce Langhorne and Shep Shepard, Mr. Ailey and Miss De Lavallade went through volatile dances that were by turns insinuating, threatening, contemptuous and ecstatic.

With the American Revolutionary War came " Brother Jonathan " as another personification and finally after the War of 1812 Uncle Sam appeared.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase " Big Brother is watching you ", which is the core " truth " of the propaganda system in this state.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term " Big Brother " has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed life under totalitarianism.

In the novel it is not clear whether Big Brother is ( or was ) a real person or a fiction invented by the Party to personify itself.

In Party propaganda Big Brother is presented as a real person: one of the founders of the Party, along with Goldstein.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days.

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

When Winston Smith is later arrested, O ' Brien, his interrogator, again describes Big Brother as a figure who will never die.

When Smith asks if Big Brother exists, O ' Brien describes him as " the embodiment of the Party " and that he will exist as long as the Party exists.

Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff makes frequent reference to both Big Brother and other Orwellian traits in his Russian Reversal jokes.

The magazine Book ranked Big Brother No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 list.

The worldwide reality television show Big Brother is based on the novel's concept of people being under constant surveillance.