1984
George Orwell in the novel, 1984, concedes a dystopian society where an individual does not exist and is stripped of their humanity. Where the ruling party and leader, Big Brother, desires to completely subjugate the people. The novel’s purpose is to signify the impact an unprincipled government has on its citizens and way of reasoning. Orwell constructs a pertinent narrative that illustrates the correlation between the present and the future. Through forms of manipulation and censorship such as, propaganda, surveillance, and physical and mental restrictions. Unfortunately, in today’s society, most citizens are fightenly unaware that our country is being controlled by a dystopian regime similar found in 1984.
In the novel, the party continuously monitors all citizens for any sign of crime or rebellion, adopting the persona of “Big Brother.” The most important way the party keeps citizens under
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Has jurisdiction over the past, present, and future, through the concept of “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” (Orwell). In the novel, Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he is assigned the task of revising old newspaper articles in order to censor any news not reinforced. Today we discern censorship frequently than before, due to the current political situation in the United States. Besides, in 2012, the United States had 321 removal requests, which put the country in 2nd place overall. In fact, current news networks are contributing biased information that is only significant to them and not dedicating the truth to the public. As well as social media, according to Twitter engineers, the social network was trying to 'ban, like, a way of talking.' Also, disclosed “it was 'risky' because if people figure out they've been shadow banned, they would be furious”