Once upon a time television was a great escape from Reality just like radio and movies. Nowadays the media is filled with various Reality Shows that simply transfer our everyday life to the TV screen.
But the public do seem to find this appealing as millions of Britons continue to watch this mind numbing television programme. These people never stop to ask themselves why they care about who is going to get evicted on Saturday night or why they bother watching things they see every. Thus if you look at Big Brother intellectually you see that there is in fact nothing interesting about the Show.
In regular life, watching the intimate details of a strangers life is called spying, or Voyeurism, and is frowned upon to the extent of being illegal with a penalty of up to five years imprisonment. But Big Brother indulges and seems to project a glorified version of Voyeurism. Views can avoid all semblance of having a life and spend their time watching someone else do it for them.
I may be missing the point but surely the whole idea of watching the television is to escape Reality not to relive it nightly after having lived and worked throughout the day. Personally I don't watch television because I want to watch real people doing real things. If I were interested in that, I would just spend more time living my life.
Moving on to the participants in Big Brother. Here are people becoming famous for being asleep, for flashing their breasts, for quarrelling, for complaining, for being unpopular and (this is too interesting to happen often), for kissing! Here, in short are people becom ing famous and winning thousands of pounds for doing nothing much at all, but simply doing it where everyone can see them.
Even outside the world of television there is no escape from the Big Brother boredom. Wherever you go people are discussing whether this person is going to get it on with this member of the house or whether another person is secretly gay. The public get great pleasure from knowing the life history of the contestants from the tabloids without seeming to realise that their stories will be of similar interest to that of everybody elses. At work people sit with half an eye on their computers and the other on the live feed back from Big Brother and wait with baited breath for one of them to even speak. The Reality of the Show is that the real Big Brother is very dull as the inmates really do not do a lot. Thus as the former Big Brother contestant Melanie Hill was quoting saying that, the Show has to be edited or it would be really boring. Therefore i n order to inject a small amount of interest into the programme the editors hide twenty-three hours of the action from us.
However, some analysts have praised it to the skies as a brilliant scientific experiment that gives us new insights into human nature. But the inmates situation is so artificial and complex that it tells us very little about the way the contestants would behave in private under normal circumstances. Every action they made in the Big Brother house had three agendas. First it had a personal element. They expressed themselves honestly as individuals, for themselves. Second it had a group element. They expressed themselves dishonestly in such a way that they would not encourage the others to vote them out. Third it had a viewer element. They expressed themselves dishonestly to curry favour with the viewers, who would decide the final winner of the competition.
Add the contestants Exhibitionism to the viewers Voyeurism and you get a picture of a society sickly in thrall to the glamour of Reality television. Such is the glamour of these dull but brilliantly spot lit events that anything resembling a real value such as modesty, decency, intelligence, humour, and many others is rendered redundant.
Why do people continue to sit at home and watch these half-attractive half-persons. Why do they watch the unashamed self-display of the talent less when there is so much real talent on offer if they were to change channel of pick up a book. Maybe they could read Orwells Big Brother and see how one of the most relevant warning in literature has been packaged, marketed and fed to the hordes in perhaps the most vulgar and tedious way imaginable.
The article was produced by Research Papers expert writer. Mar Anne Winslow has a vast experience i n Dissertation writing counselling and term paper writing services for several years.
Author:: Mary Anne Winslow
Keywords:: Show, Reality, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism
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