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Rough Draft Of George Orwell's 1984

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Throughout the past decade, social media has been present in people’s modern day lives. It has shaped, molded, tempered, and changed their lives. This is a true fact because one single person cannot express his or her feelings on a social media with a different opinion than that of the main group’s opinion. This relates to 1984 because in this book the people are not allowed to be an individual, they must all be the same otherwise they will be imprisoned, killed, or vaporized.

At the beginning of this story the author begins by stating that things in life are not that good, and to make things better the main character states that, “Big brother is watching you” pg-6. This quote explains how in the story how everyone is being watched by the government and if they mess up they will be punished just for being themselves. This relates to the real world because one cannot simply express his or her feelings in public or social media because people will hate on them. …show more content…

This explains that no matter where the main character went or did the thought police would be watching at all times, which they were always watching to make sure everyone stayed the same. In the real world or the reality of modern day society, we are always being watched. Whether we are being watched by actual people or we are on an electronic device and we are on a social website, we are always being watched by the government. The government in the real world is just like 1984 because the government wants to always keep an eye on

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In the book “1984” and the articles from the New York Times and the Washington TImes, all speak about how the book 1984 showed people had no freedom what so ever. It speaks about many things that our society today goes through. Most people believe that we will soon live in a dystopian society where everyone always keeps tabs on us. In 1984 they say that “Big Brother is always there.”

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Essay Organizer Template Introduction -Attention-grabber: Do you understand the value of the words in our languages. -Transition/Background information: 1984, by George Orwell, is about a man named Winston who is trying to make a difference in a dystopian London. -Thesis/claim: Language is the very foundation of thought and when it 's destroyed people lose a sense of who they are.

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In the book “1984 by George Orwell the author uses imagery and foreshadow to show the readers the horrible world we will have in the future. In this novel, you will find out that everybody is watched and has no privacy no matter what they do or where they go. Everybody is constantly under surveillance. This makes people frustrated because they want to live and a free and individual life where they can do what they want and think what they want but this seems to be a hard job because not everyone is able to fight for individualism. This is kind of strange because this book was published right after World War II and the things that happen in this book are currently happening now in 2017.

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The Horrifying Parallels between 1984 and Real Life Big Brother is watching the movie! Fortunately, this is only a reality in Oceania's dystopian society in George Orwell’s 1984. In this story, he depicts this society as having eyes watching you 24/7. George Orwell depicts Big Brother as a glorified government leader who oversees everything. George Orwell got this inspiration from Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union dictator.

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(Orwell 3-4). In 1984, telescreens are everywhere, they speak, record, and scan all areas within its reach. These are designed to spy on people, never allowing anyone to ever be alone, lessening the number of people that will rebel against Big Brother. Society is constantly around technology (not much of a choice), people are thought police that will see that you are guilty of committing a thought crime (thinking any bad thought against Big Brother). In this novel, thoughts are not private anymore.

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The book continues with an encounter between Winston and his neighbor, Mrs. Parsons. Mrs. Parsons asked Winston for assistance as her apartment sink was backed up and her husband was not available to unplug it. The Parsons’s unhealthy family dynamic was thoroughly described from Winston’s point of view. The mother was careful not to discipline her children too much for she could be betrayed by her family. The kids were vicious and were described as “ungovernable little savages”.

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Winston Smith, a worker in the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth, is opposed to the rule of the Party. The Party is led by one man who never appears in the story, but is seen everywhere, Big Brother. In Oceania, there are telescreens monitoring everyone and a group called the Thought Police who keep people from having rebellious thoughts. Winston decides he should write a diary even though he knows it’s punishable by death if he’s caught. Along with Winston, a girl named Julia who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, also dislikes the Party’s rule.

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This also demonstrates the perils of a society where personal privacy is surrendered for the greater good of the state, which confirms the portrayal of severe surveillance in the novel. To sum up, the government's use of extensive monitoring, brainwashing, and control, as depicted in 1984, emphasizes the risk of ignoring one’s privacy in favor of the interest of the state. The basic argument of the book is that there is no such thing as privacy and that governments constantly monitor their citizens which remains important in today's society. The novel serves as a cautionary story of what happens when, as a result of widespread surveillance in

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Imagine big brother spying on you without you knowing and he 's watching you 24/7 and has cameras everywhere you go . Consider yourself having no privacy. How would you feel if you were being recorded. Everywhere we go, someone is watching whether we are aware of it or not. In George Orwell’s novel , 1984, is a novel about society in which the government and big brother is watching every move,sound and emotion that a citizen makes or do.

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