1984 George Orwell Freedom Essay

There is an illusion of freedom. No one is ever really free. No one is ever really free of responsibility, expectations, or even the person themselves. The optimist believes freedom is to be fought for, the pessimist says there was never any freedom at all, the realist wonders: If freedom has to be continually fought for, will it ever truly exist? George Orwell’s novel titled 1984 expresses a satirical writing where an extreme dystopian society is revealed and how the main idea of freedom is challenged after each and every word. Orwell writes the novel in 1948, London at the beginning of the Cold War. At this time people all over the world feared the future. Orwell’s interpretation of the future is not his fact but an exaggerated vision of what’s to come. Despite the novel being a sign of the times, Orwell’s true mission is to show the rest of the world how polluted society can become if the governments don’t reevaluate their original mission in the political and humanistic system. He uses the main protagonist in the book named Winston Smith to give light of how daily life is for a struggling rebel. Orwell satirically uses personal surveillance, the media, and even marital law, as just a few examples of what can be quickly taken overboard.

It’s common knowledge that history repeats itself, coming back each time with different characters. In 1984 the characters have extreme difficulty navigating their lives in an exceptionally totalitaristic environment. In modern day we have security cameras every half block or so but, in 1984 cameras with audio and other newfangled devices could be lurking every few feet. Within the past few years, the suspicion that (in America) the FBI could hack into someone’s audio or camera on their phones, computers, or TVs and hear or see what’s happening, is becoming more and more alike to Orwell’s society after each inconspicuous