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1984 By George Orwell

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In today's society people are not aware how dystopian novels are very much related to each other. The novel 1984 is an excellent example of how American society is connected to its characteristics such as propaganda, surveillance, and censorship among the book. The novel is set in 1984 in Oceania and contains characters: Winston Smith, Big Brother, Julia, O’brien, & Emmanuel Goldstein. They have three social class status: The Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. The society that they live in is a very controlling government where they can't even express their own emotions or they will be punished by Big Brother and will be “vaporized”. The Party brainwashes their citizens to believe that Big Brother is superior to them and essentially …show more content…

Citizens would often be watched by telescreen, secret police, and heard by hidden microphones. For example, on page 123, “Don't go out to the open. There might be people watching”, (Orwell). This indicates that Julia and Winston have to be aware of their surroundings and keep their voices low in order to not be caught or heard by anyone. This relates to this modern world because of the simple usage of smartphone technology. Smartphones have cameras built within them and collect personal information such as location, data, and essentially just everything in the person's life. Any smart device does not give you any privacy at all. “Not only they do a poor job of protecting your communications, they also expose you to new kinds of surveillance risks”, (GCS). This shows that cellphones have great usage of surveillance and can potentially cause more harm than good when you least expect it by just owning and using any technological …show more content…

“It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened”, (Orwell 38 & 39). The main reasoning for this is to brainwash all classes to believe that Big Brother is superior to more than anyone living in the world of Oceania. This quote realistically reflects upon in real life such as the bundles of lies of news networks providing false information and not including certain topics that are going on in the world. "Although they’re in the First Amendment business, network newscasts largely ignored the rise and fall of a federal government board that raised red flags about the potential targeting of speech”, (Lucas). News networks release information for their own sake of good. They often do not give the full story, and release certain information for money and entertainment purposes. This speaks for how corrupted the news media and how biased it can

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In 1984 you are either in the Inner party, Outer party, or you’re a prole. You have to live in constant fear of Big Brother. If I lived in Fahrenheit 451, all I would have to do is not read, women seemingly never worked, and accept tv as my family, but, If I lived in the other societies, I would live in constant fear or I could be subjected to a pitiful life. Through much consideration and analysis I will would live in the world of Fahrenheit 451.

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In 1949, an author by the name of George Orwell decided to put the tragedies that were happening in real life onto paper to create a frightening story that would haunt several generations. In the thrilling dystopian novel 1984, tells of a story of a new world that is filled with manipulation, fear, control, and a brainwashed public. This world depicts a government who is everywhere, sees everything, and controls every aspect of every person's life. Not only is the government controlling the public, but they are also in the media. Mainly the news being the source of manipulation, many stories get rewritten and several words get cut out of the news every day.

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For a Utopian society, Big Brother must watch everyone’s actions. In chapter one of book one, “Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen… even a back can be revealing.” This indicates how any behavior that is even small can seem suspicious to the Party. Orwell states in the novel that it is “terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen… In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense.”

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To most audiences, 1984 serves as a type of warning about the government in the future. All through the novel, if a citizen rebels against the Party it is considered superfluous. A ‘normality’ and ‘normal behavior’ are clearly defined in 1984. A reader can easily see these traits in many of the characters and their similar personalities (We are the dead…). By the means of using complete authority, Big Brother must stay alive as well as abolish the joy of individual citizens.

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Imagine living in a world that you are forced to believe in something that is illogical. Imagine being forced to accept two contradictory ideas at the same time. This is exactly how the people live under the Big Brother’s rule in this deeply depressing and dystopian novel, 1984, written by the renowned English author, George Orwell. One of the major themes throughout the whole book is the dangers brought about by totalitarianism, which serves as a warning to the whole mankind.

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In Orwell’s 1984 there is a political party that believes in English socialism called Big Brother. They are the rulers of a nation called Oceania and hold absolute power. The tactics they use are based on techniques used by other totalitarian rulers and dictatorships throughout history, mostly focusing on German Nazisam and Stalinistic Communism. However, since this book was written over fifty years ago and is based in a dystopian future, some of the predictions Orwell made about dictatorships abusing technology have come to fruition in the modern day. The thing that sets Big Brother apart from dictatorships of the past is that they admit to themselves that the only reason they want to be in charge is so they can have power.

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Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the screen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world.” (Orwell, “1984” 262) Under “Big Brother”, the inner party, which was also known as the ruling class, was run by the elites of Oceania and communicated Big Brother's messages to the lower class.

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But he is simply a figurehead to keep everyone's freedom under control, and the party forever in power. As the party slogan, supported by Big Brother states “War is peace/ Freedom is slavery/Ignorance is truth” (Orwell 4). Big Brother's job is to be an inspiration and portrait of a perfect man who follows the party's gilded path. But this Gilded Path is a path of control, where so much as thinking is a crime; for one to be successful they must do, not think.

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