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George Orwell 1984 Research Paper

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In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith battles with the oppression Oceania brings to him. Oceania is a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with the watch of “Big Brother.” 1984 explains the government has total control onto what you watch, say, think and act in everyday life. Similar to 1948, today’s society has something similar to “Big Brother”, our phones. Our phones represent a type of way that not just the government, but the way certain apps govern us. Even though in a way we require technology, the more it advances, the more we lack social interaction. In today’s society technology has an enormous impact on how we think, act, and perceive the world. Apps like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are slowly …show more content…

We allow society advise us what we can and can’t do. It determines what remains the norm for people. In order to be accepted people must follow the rules that the media and society have set. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself”(Orwell 294). People think that the only way to strive and be successful in today's society is to look like the role model that is portrayed through magazines and celebrities that receive hundreds of followers. So they hide how they truly feel and what how they really want to express themselves. Online websites promise us with avatars that let us appreciate our bodies and how we want to look. But when we will accept the fact that it's just a digital figure, that doesn’t represent who we are. At what cost are we willing to go to play pretend with our lives? We have to face the fact that eventually, we have to put the screen down and take control of the way we perceive ourselves as. It provides “a mean of escaping confronting aspects of ourselves and ourselves we wish were different, better, more glamorous and less mundane.” (Warrell) It's a convenient tool that lets us avoid our real-life problems and with that, it can become destructive. Society “control[s] matter because [it's] controlling the mind. Reality is inside the skull" (Orwell

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