Government Surveillance In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, the novel,Winston Smith is an administration representative whose employment includes the revising of history in a way that throws his anecdotal nation's pioneers in a magnanimous light. His trysts with Julia give his exclusive measure of satisfaction, however administrators dislike the relationship, and in this secured society, there is no escape from Big Brother, who is the government. Throughout the novel, tele screens are used as devices that operated as both televisions and security cameras. It monitors everyone actions and speech, completely controlling every aspect of human existence. Orwell’s main goal is to warn people of the serious endangerment that totalitarianism poses to the society by showing how the government controls the citizens throughout the story using surveillance within the citizens home. People may believe that surveillance help to thwart terrorists attacks, or be used for national security. However, the government …show more content…

The NSA surveillance has help to catch Europeans terrorists. A man committed murder some U.S. soldiers, he made someone aware of his escape plan from the missile strike by e-mail (Rotella). The NSA was aware of this because of monitoring. “U.S. surveillance had tracked their radicalization, their emails from Pakistan, even calls made to their mothers before they trudged through snowy Iranian mountains. An intercepted photo that Garsallaoui sent his wife showed him holding a grenade launcher” (Rotella). This quote shows how the NSA was able to develop the information needed by hacking into the computer. By being aware of the e-mails being sent out allowed them to track down the murderer. This describe how the racking and monitoring internet and cellphones can useful to the