Motif
The watching eye
A recurring image of an all-seeing eye, camera, or gaze that evokes surveillance and the loss of privacy.
The watching eye in fiction: 5 works
The telescreen and Big Brother's watching gaze fix the motif of pervasive surveillance.
The pervasive scanner surveillance turns the watcher into the watched.
Hidden cameras record Truman's every moment, making surveillance the medium of his prison.
Ubiquitous retinal scanning and targeted ads render the future a panopticon.
Lumon's total monitoring and control of its severed floor pervade the series.