George Orwell's 1984: Everything Is Run By Big Brother

The novel 1984 takes place in a fictitious world where everything is run by Big Brother. Everything from what books you read to what you’re allowed to say is controlled by them. To think that everything in my life would be dictated to me by the government and that if I objected to any part of this, I would be vaporized and they would erase my life as if I never existed, is abhorrent to me. I feel that 1984 is very relevant in the world today. As we see from Snowden’s revelations, the government does spy on people and listen to their phone calls without our consent. In the book there is something called a telescreen which is used as a TV as well as a tool to spy on people. This is similar to what the NSA does. The NSA has the cabability to wiretap anybody and can even keep a record of all the conversations. If a phone

It says on page 51 that Syme, has a job of perfecting the dictionary called Newspeak. They wanted to cut the English language down to the bone. People should not use Oldspeak only Newspeak The aim of Newspeak is too narrow your range of thought. They think that if people don’t know how to think they won’t be able to rebel. In the Unites States, The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and therefore we cannot be limited in our thought or words. On the other hand we have our own version of Newspeak that limits what we think, by limiting what we say. It is called Political Correctness. As Americans we have the right to express what we are thinking, but PC sort of dictates what we are allowed to say. If something is offensive people can’t say it. Some people feel that PC is a censorship as well as a danger to our freedom of speech. For example a University in Illinois forbade the students from chanting “USA USA USA” at a football game because if there were any Muslims attending the game it would offend