George Orwell's 1984 And North Korea

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George Orwell’s novel “1984” has an incredible amount of mood swings for the reader because of the sudden changes in events, setting and emotional status of the main character, Winston. While a modern day 1984 is North Korea, they too have the same amount of influence on each other because of their similar societies, rulers, and surveillance. North Korea uses machines to monitor your phone calls, emails, text messages etc. While 1984 also uses intense surveillance, they use telescreens to monitor your every move and every word you say. Also, the thought police is a very important type of surveillance in 1984. They use physical features, nervousness and other signs of rebellion against big brother and then turn you in. (more than 80% of the