Comparing America And George Orwell's 1984 By George Orwell

In George Orwell’s book,” 1984” written in 1949 describes about how Winston Smith lives through Oceania which uses endless war to maintain a stable economy at the expense of their own people. Ever since Snowden spoke publically to the world about how the United States has established the NSA to look into people’s secrets and private information. People started reading George Orwell’s book about how 1984 and America can be similar to America’s use of technology and how America are keeping a stable economy but are still at an endless war at the expense of the people. America and George Orwell’s 1984 has many similarities despite libertarians say that America is never like the dystopian country in which Americans are living in today. According …show more content…
America does the same in which they have politicians tell the working class how important they are to America but in reality cut wages, raise taxes on the lower class, issue welfare which screws the economy, and phase out worker’s rights. They also issue advertisements on things which people don’t really need to survive like television and other technologies but people would still want to buy the latest gadgets and spending huge amounts of money on something worthless. Another similarity is the Ministry of Truth which is to spread lies, propaganda, and misinformation in Oceania. America does the same by issuing patriotic things about how doing the right thing for the country is the best. They censor news networks into showing positive things about America and how much better America is when compared to other countries which are seen as third-world countries which are suffering and living under devastating poverty. This enables Americans to love their country and hate anyone who is against America and its …show more content…
Newspeak is the new edition of the English language where words are destroyed and made shorter by combining them with another word which doesn’t mean the same but is made the same, while doublethink is where two words which are contradictory are put together. America uses newspeak and doublespeak in explaining war, government, trade, and much more. Words used by America to appear to the American people as being positive or negative towards someone or a group is how words can play in telling someone about a bad thing through the use of good words. This use of words has controlled how people think about their government because they are seen as doing the right thing instead of something