In George Orwell's 1984, the dystopian society serves as a warning about the dangers of extreme government control and how it can lead to the erosion of privacy, destruction of identity, and disregard for human life. Furthermore, the severity of these issues is illustrated with great intensity; children are shown to no longer take comfort in their parents' care while privacy becomes an unattainable aspiration. No one truly understands who they are as opposed to what the Party expects them to be, and hatred is the only thing that unites them.
In George Orwell's dystopian creation, he draws attention to important social issues, particularly the deterioration of privacy. In the second part of the novel, Winston and Julia must go to extreme lengths to acquire some sense of seclusion. Despite their efforts, they remain skeptical that they are still under surveillance in some form or another. They have no solitude and yet they are completely isolated from the world because of the Party’s stipulations. Not only have the people’s social privacies been stripped from them, but their personal privacy as well. Telescreens are placed everywhere, incriminating a person for even a wrong facial expression.
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This is evidenced by Winston's words: “And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies.” These individuals had become oblivious and mindless to such an extent that they had lost their true selves. Being an individual who thought independently was practically a death sentence, leading to an absence of identity and