Loss Of Privacy In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

When governments take too much power and control, people often lose their identities because of harsh precedents. As an illustration, Joseph Stalin had his former allies confess to lying about crimes they committed. After their false confessions, the people then saw the traitors as enemies. Because of the lack of support from their former ally, the traitors lost their desire to fight back and suffered the cruel punishments of Stalin. Due to the tragedies in World War II, George Orwell often wrote books paralleling the actions of ruthless dictators. In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother, the government, takes away the freedoms of expression and privacy to control the people of Oceania, like Winston. A literary analyzer says, “It would probably suit Orwell’s purpose well enough if he could frighten us into understanding two things: that power is and end just

In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Party steals the individuality from the people to ultimately control them. To begin, the author shows the lack of individuality in Oceania by taking away the citizen’s privacy. First of all, the technology that Big Brother uses to monitor its citizens limits their privacy. To demonstrate telescreens can be in the houses of citizens, and they will never know if Big Brother watches them. Orwell narrates the lack of privacy by saying, “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision… he could be seen as well as heard” (Orwell 3). Because of the confusing perspective of private and public surroundings, Winston has to continuously watch what he does in his own home. Literary critic Stephen Ingle notes, “This lack of a distinction between a private and a public realm is precisely what gives life in Oceania its