The television series "Big Brother" tracks contestants by camera stranded in a Los Angeles house with no contact to the outside world. It is almost exactly like George Orwell's novel "1984?" Is the show supposed to be based on the book?

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The show is named after the all-powerful, all-seeing, totalitarian leader of George Orwell's book. Cameras watch the citizens' every moves and microphones record their every utterances. Citizens are encouraged to betray each other to Big Brother and dissent is punishable by death. The parallels with the game show can be drawn quite readily, with the constant surveillance, the rigid enforcement of the rules and the housemates confiding their opinions of other housemates to Big Brother through the nomination process. Just as the citizens face Room 101 and / or death in the book, so housemates face the termination of their existence in the show through eviction. Aug 14 03, 4:59 PM

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