1984 Present Day Essay

Since ancient times humanity has utilized the act of surveillance to either to protect itself or provide strategic advantages in war. Throughout time this tactic has served well in warfare but it has been shown more in George Orwell novel 1984. He portrays the extremist point of view that would have affected the present day, which it does. While he exaggerates the fact of technology taking advantage of the ability to record and monitor its user, his predictions still hold some truth during present time. In most cases people believe that this does not exist in our time but there is something that the government has been hiding and only recently it has been know for the past 57 years. In present day people surround themselves in technology compared to 1984 where people have no choice but to have a telescreen in their houses and in their workplaces.
Now in present day the problem is that people are surrounded by technology. As time continues to progress onward, this is the way the present time will continue to be. George Orwell predicted that by this …show more content…
People today don't notice that we live in a time that everyone is being monitored for the majority of the time. This fact is very true in North Korea were the media is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week with propaganda and political slurs. “ Ordinary citizens have no internet access, and have TV’s and radios receive only government channels. Homes are equipped with loudspeakers that blare state sponsored slogans and sanitized news all day long and can’t be shut off’(Smith). Sadly this nation has reached a point where the government have the control over all of its people. 1984 was correct so much so that I may scares the mind people. Under Kim Jong Un rule people are apparel to the novel. Orwell has correctly portrayed this