A great-impact political novel written by Orwell two years after WWII ended treats mainly the subject of dictatorship authority, especially the tyrannical and theocentric type.
Those are the two possible ways of broad-view the dystopia, with one big brother being the political party such as the Nazi one, these would be the most obvious associations like the Hitler Youth or the public executions, but to me is too narrow (like most obvious observations) rather is the second, the religious one that interests me.
The associations on the idea presented are quite simple: Omniscient, omnipotent, and practically ubiquitous but yet unclear whether exists or not Big Brother, with the blood-related title like the cherry on the cake is a god, specifically one of the main three monotheisms.
In addition, the sexual repression as fuel for faithfulness, and the indoctrination of the infants who when grown expose their fathers' sins and of course the threat of the thing one fears the most (in our case instead of Winston's rats is generally death and eternal damnation, although if I had to choose I choose the flames). In general, a portrait of the reign of terror which ethnocentricism implies
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