Since its publication the terms Big Brother and Orwellian became widely used in popular speech. Orwell's novel became famous for its satirical portrayal of surveillance, and of society's increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual.
Becoming disillusioned with this system and his meagre existence, Smith began a futile rebellion against the system. The story followed the life of Winston Smith, an apparently minor civil servant whose job was to falsify records and political literature, and thus perpetuate propaganda. In 1949 English author Eric Arthur Blair, writing under his pseudonym, George Orwell, published the dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four in London.
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