Compare And Contrast Essay On 1984 By George Orwell

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George Orwell wrote a dystopian novel called, “1984.” It is about the future, that he imagined, that draws on the past of World War II. In his imagination, the country Oceania and the ruler Big Brother, have the power to watch and control every aspect of every citizen’s life through a two-way screen called a telescreen. Our government today is similar to what Orwell had imagined, because the citizens are constantly being watched and every move they make will be recorded, and technology is taking us closer to the world of Big Brother. In Oceania, there were many ways the citizens can be surveilled. The first one is the Thought Police. The Thought Police are the people who discover thought crime and arrest those whose thoughts are against the Party or unapproved by them. The children in the families are also used as spies in the homes that even their own parents are afraid of them. “Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’, the little girl imitating her brother in every movement,” (Orwell 23). They would report to the …show more content…

Big Brother and the Party use technology to insure fear in the people and that they fall completely under their control. Phone security is beginning to greatly diminish. Mobile carriers, for example, do not even request for search warrants when they need to access private information. “It appears that millions of cellphone carriers have been swept up in government surveillance of their calls and where they made them from. Many police agencies don’t obtain search warrants when requesting location data from carriers,” (Maass/Rajagopalan 2). By the government doing this without the people’s permission, they are acting like the Party and the words, “Big Brother is watching you,” comes up. With our privacy getting less and less, our government is slowly becoming like Big Brother and the Party, and like Oceania, citizens will have no

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