George Orwell's 1984 is a warning to the future about how big of an impact excessive technology can have on the modern world. He creates a society that constantly monitors their people to make sure their follow the rules. Orwell shows how easy it can be for a dictator to have absolute control. Or how technology can invade our privacy. Our society has already created a whole separate digital world about our lives. In the end, technology can quickly become a bad thing and our society has not listened to Orwell’s warnings.
One thing Orwell warns us is how quickly our privacy can be invaded. It allows others to constantly watch us and know where we are all the time. When Winston was in his apartment, he explained that "the telescreen received …show more content…
Even in the privacy of his own home, he has to be wary of the Party watching him. If he makes one wrong move, they can come in and arrest him or put him in a forced-labor camp. These telescreens are very similar to the video surveillance stores, hotels and streets have. Everyone can be watched and tracked down if they had access to these cameras. Also, when Winston met up with Julia, she told him "I didn’t want to say anything in the lane, in case there's a mike hidden there. There's always the chance of one of those swine recognizing your voice. We're all right here" (119). In Oceania, the people could not have relationships or go on a weekend trip without raising a red flag. Even way out in the secluded country, Julia and Winston had to be careful of microphones. Today, people can easily stick a microphone in someones car, record their conversations or tap their phone lines. We would never know that we were being recorded either. Also, Winston was thinking about their nervous systems, when he thought “At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. He thought of a …show more content…
As Winston explains to Julia the importance of preserving the past, he realizes "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every stature and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right" (155). The Party has been manipulating history everyday, so nothing conflicts with what they say. They purposely made all of their records digital so they could erased the past and keep modifying it. The Party members will always think that this is the only way to live. Also, the Party has not only rewrote the past, but they have scared their people from having any individual thought and making them believe everything they say. On the sixth day of Hate Week, Winson thought “this moment it had been announced that oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally...Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” (180). The Party has so much control that the people follow unquestionably. They know that if the Party tells them something, they must whole heartedly believe it or else they fear that they will be put in a forced-labor camp or sent to the Ministry of Love to be tortured. They would not risk doing anything against the rules because the telescreens are always
One thing Orwell warns us is how quickly our privacy can be invaded. It allows others to constantly watch us and know where we are all the time. When Winston was in his apartment, he explained that "the telescreen received …show more content…
Even in the privacy of his own home, he has to be wary of the Party watching him. If he makes one wrong move, they can come in and arrest him or put him in a forced-labor camp. These telescreens are very similar to the video surveillance stores, hotels and streets have. Everyone can be watched and tracked down if they had access to these cameras. Also, when Winston met up with Julia, she told him "I didn’t want to say anything in the lane, in case there's a mike hidden there. There's always the chance of one of those swine recognizing your voice. We're all right here" (119). In Oceania, the people could not have relationships or go on a weekend trip without raising a red flag. Even way out in the secluded country, Julia and Winston had to be careful of microphones. Today, people can easily stick a microphone in someones car, record their conversations or tap their phone lines. We would never know that we were being recorded either. Also, Winston was thinking about their nervous systems, when he thought “At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. He thought of a …show more content…
As Winston explains to Julia the importance of preserving the past, he realizes "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every stature and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right" (155). The Party has been manipulating history everyday, so nothing conflicts with what they say. They purposely made all of their records digital so they could erased the past and keep modifying it. The Party members will always think that this is the only way to live. Also, the Party has not only rewrote the past, but they have scared their people from having any individual thought and making them believe everything they say. On the sixth day of Hate Week, Winson thought “this moment it had been announced that oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally...Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” (180). The Party has so much control that the people follow unquestionably. They know that if the Party tells them something, they must whole heartedly believe it or else they fear that they will be put in a forced-labor camp or sent to the Ministry of Love to be tortured. They would not risk doing anything against the rules because the telescreens are always