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members are supposed to worship and obey Big Brother because he is the center of life.
Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every
victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all
virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has
ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen 158.
Big Brother is an imagery figure made by the Inner Party to symbolize an undefeated
leader who is always right for the people to obey and worship. Big Brother is the figure in
which the people are forced to love and fear.
Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His
function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which
are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization 158.
Hannah Arendt states that totalitarian leader is seen as an idol . The idol is mere
organizational devices, familiar from the ritual of secret societies, which also used to
frighten their members into secretiveness by means of frightful, awe-inspiring symbols
1951: 377.