Government Surveillance In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Rough Draft for 1984 research paper Government surveillance has reached a point where the average person’s privacy is being violated on a frequent basis by collecting sensitive information such as audio, messages, location and photographs. In 2013, a whistleblower named Edward Snowden released information about how the CIA and NSA collect and stores private information of millions of people. George Orwell had predicted these sorts of events back in 1945 in his best-selling novel “Nineteen Eighty-four’. He had predicted that the government was going to constantly be monitoring and manipulating civilians to believe what the government wants them to believe and by doing so, they would receive more and more power. Our government has taken

The story focuses on a rather grim character named Winston Smith who has a burning passion to end the misery the totalitarian government named ingsoc brings to its people. In this story, the government monitors, manipulates and controls its inhabitants in any way shape and form to maintain the power of “the party”. This novel raised public awareness and helped establish what we know now as an orwellian society (one that is monitored constantly by the person or group at the top of the social pyramid). This ties into our modern society as we as common people have outbursts about how the government thinks it has the right to do everything and our way to contrast that is to take to the streets and

Nothing gets done over night, you can't go through a fight and expect for something to change the following day. It seems optimistic for one to question and fight and expect change to happen immediately. The truth to this is that until a majority agree on this, nothing will change. Our lives will continue to be inspected closely and we will continue to fear the day that our personal lives get manipulated into something we don't want. I fear the day where i wake up and my kid’s life is stored on a random person’s hard drive. I also fear the day that they get hacked and now the entire world has access to what they do, have done, and assume what they will