1984 Technology Analysis

Imagine the sky pitch and the only thing you see is telescreens watching us..In 1984 by George Orwell, Winston a party member who works for the ministry of Truth delusional trying to escape from Big Brother who is the leader of oceania if he really exists and set limited freedom. The party who controls everything in oceania as in No rebellious thoughts, not even political rebellion talk is illegal or you'll cause your life at death or jail. He teams up with Julia who is his lover mid 20’s woman who possess the party and O’Brien who is the undercover spy who teams up to overthrow the party. Technology helps the parties ability to control its citizens by using telescreens. Telescreens help the party stop the people from doing erroneous things.

Telescreens which are like televisions watch them to watch their actions and speech and control them but also wipes out any information, documents, and past things. The telescreens would even tell them what to do.
Telescreens were used to watch them but not only did they watch them but they told them what to do. For example in 1984 they would tell them to exercise or stretch and do what their told to do like in the text it says “‘Smith!’ screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. ‘6079 Smith W.! Yes, YOU! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You’re not trying. Lower, please! THAT’S better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.’” it didn't really say why they did that but basically they controlled them they wanted to get into people's head to do
things they didn't want to do it would even control your emotions to see if you're suspicious.

The Telescreens in 1984 would also pick up anything you would say it could hear your heartbeat even your whispers too and it would cause you to get into trouble if your talking about the government,party, Big brother,politics if you're against it. For example if you talk bad about the politics government etc.. then you can die or go to jail for that since it was illegal. In the text it said “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. The telescreens and party were so high in technology even the smallest things could be picked up they weren't safe at all. Also in the text it said “He took his scribbling pad on his knee and pushed back his chair so as to get as far away from the telescreen as possible. To keep your face expressionless was not difficult, and even your breathing could be controlled, with an effort: but you could not control the beating of your heart, and the telescreen was quite delicate enough to pick it up.” you couldn't really do anything because they were so controlling it controlled the people the telescreens were so sensitive it could heart the heart beating. If you looked suspicious then they would assume something is up. In the text in chapter one it also said “"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound 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 which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” that even your back could be revalving it's just brainwashing them and the thought police.

Winston knew it was illegal to keep a diary but even though he wrote in it t he knew he could get executed he still did it.

For example he wrote “Down with big brother Down with big brother” like in the text it says “longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals—DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page. He could not help feeling a twinge of panic. It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words was not
24 1984 more dangerous than the initial act of opening the diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether. He did not do so, however, because he knew that it was useless. Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. It also said “ The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labour camp. He But can they really escape orwell's horrible society he's shown them. And if the telescreen catched that or seen it

from the diary he could be put to torture or get sentenced to 25 years at hard labor.

The people from the party and Big brother also used the telescreens so if someone else wants to tell on them if they caused a crime they can. For example children were used as the surveillance prices for the party. For example in 1984 it said "‘Down with Big Brother!’ Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I'm glad they got me before it went any further..” "Who denounced you?" said Winston. "It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway” the children survey by the party and the little girl turn in her dad because of thoughtcrime supposedly it was because of love i guess to teach them they are suppose to do that.

In 1984 the telescreen helped them catch julia and winston's affair in the text it said “ "You are the dead," repeated the iron voice.

"It was behind the picture," breathed Julia.
"It was behind the picture," said the voice. "Remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered."

It was starting, it was starting at last! They could do nothing except stand gazing into one another's eyes, unthinkable to disobey the iron voice from the wall. There was a snap as though a catch had been turned back, and a crash of breaking glass. The picture had fallen to the floor uncovering the telescreen behind it” telescreens are everywhere no matter what there was a telescreen in the rented room they were in and they were surveyed and caught their whole

affair.

Clearly, Their telescreen was a vile technology that they couldn't do anything they couldn't get away from it since they were literally watched and heard 24/7 even controlled. So that helped the party use technology so they wouldn't do anything bad they just got into their heads and brainwashed them and made them believe in things that weren't true. They were even used to catch them for talking about the government and Big Brother basically anything that illegal to them and they have to do everything they say and what the telescreens tells them to do . can you get away from technology will they ever be free and and take over the party and Big Brother..