Technology can be used in many different ways, for many different reasons. It could be used to make a utopian world, and considered a blessing. But when Various texts including George Orwell’s 1984, and Catching Fire use technology in a different way to enhance their story to take place in only the opposite of a utopian world, a dystopian world. 1984 uses technology to enhance its role in dystopia. 1984 uses technology as its main method to make it a dystopian world. Telescreens are used in the novel to keep surveillance on citizens, tracking any crimes, or suspicious activity. Due to this, characters in the book are left with no privacy, making dystopia a major role of the novel. Catching Fire also uses technology as its method to make Catching
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The lack of privacy in 1984 is proven in the following quote from the novel, “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that 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.” (Page 4) In the quote provided, there contains confirmation that telescreens were used to keep Winston under surveillance, and anything he did, would be picked up by it. Therefore, 1984 uses technology to play the role of dystopia, because the technology is used to constantly have citizens of Oceania under surveillance, and this would leave them with no privacy, anything they do will be picked up by the telescreen, and they would have no thoughts, or actions, kept to themselves. In the movie Catching Fire, surveillance is mainly used to locate where fighters are in the arena. Catching Fire included a scene in which Katniss went back to the starting point of the arena, and she was located by the workers in the lab. This scene shows how surveillance is used through technology in Catching Fire.
Catching Fire, also is dystopian, due to the technology is used. When people are sent into the arena from each district, they have to be the last one standing. But how is dystopia playing its role through the technology used in Catching
The lack of privacy in 1984 is proven in the following quote from the novel, “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that 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.” (Page 4) In the quote provided, there contains confirmation that telescreens were used to keep Winston under surveillance, and anything he did, would be picked up by it. Therefore, 1984 uses technology to play the role of dystopia, because the technology is used to constantly have citizens of Oceania under surveillance, and this would leave them with no privacy, anything they do will be picked up by the telescreen, and they would have no thoughts, or actions, kept to themselves. In the movie Catching Fire, surveillance is mainly used to locate where fighters are in the arena. Catching Fire included a scene in which Katniss went back to the starting point of the arena, and she was located by the workers in the lab. This scene shows how surveillance is used through technology in Catching Fire.
Catching Fire, also is dystopian, due to the technology is used. When people are sent into the arena from each district, they have to be the last one standing. But how is dystopia playing its role through the technology used in Catching