George Orwell, the author of the classic novel 1984, created at the time it was published on June 8, 1949 a distant utopia set 31 years ago from today that is shockingly not that far off in a sense. This fictional world that the main protagonist Winston lives in called Oceania depicts a world of endless war and the control and oppression of its inhabitants, voiding the rights of its citizens. It seems as though like Orwell effectively predicted a similar outcome to the progression of society to the modern world that we indeed live in today. Some may already say we’ve arrived at that point, but others will at least agree that it seems we are definitely heading in that direction.
The two terrifying things about George Orwell’s 1984 is first …show more content…
The first similarity is the issue of an endless war on a global scale in Orwell’s world. The endless war in his story though is just a fabrication and is treated as it’s real for the purpose simply to keep the masses in a perpetual state of fear and to keep all their citizens in order. War provides governments the ability to incept unwanted emotions onto their society such as hatred towards the enemy and patriotism towards its own nation, keeping the productivity and structure of the society intact. Sounds somewhat familiar to Americas own endless war, our “war on terror”. The war and hatred towards our faceless foe with no perceivable end in sight. With the ‘war on terror” it manifests widespread paranoia which in turn gives the government the ability to restrict civilian liberties.
The second similarity is the perpetual warfare in both 1984 and America produces a cost to freedom, slavery. In the novel, the citizens are required to sacrifice their individual freedom in order to attain a collective freedom by ultimate submission without question to the party under the watchful eye of big brother. Freedom in America enslaves its citizens by having this fallacy that defines liberty by getting what you want, when you want it and that the government is there to give it. Government handouts and bailouts through subservient entitlement is …show more content…
In George Orwell’s 1984 practically anywhere and everywhere was under constant surveillance through what he called “telescreens”, they monitored every hour of every day in effort to try to detect possible thought crime. Thus came the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”. In America not but a couple years ago Edward Snowden, a former employee of The NSA (National Security Agency) did an interview revealing what the government was capable of and what they were doing behind closed doors pertaining to surveillance and monitoring everyone and that no one’s privacy was safe. For example, Snowden said any social media records and activity or telephone calls and browsing histories on the internet were accessible to any NSA analyst. Our private lives are recorded and collected in data files for the government to keep tabs on everyone and to keep watch. With that issue comes the inability to ever have a private moment in our lives and the future generations will never get to have any sense of privacy in least little bit. Everyone is a suspect when all is
The two terrifying things about George Orwell’s 1984 is first …show more content…
The first similarity is the issue of an endless war on a global scale in Orwell’s world. The endless war in his story though is just a fabrication and is treated as it’s real for the purpose simply to keep the masses in a perpetual state of fear and to keep all their citizens in order. War provides governments the ability to incept unwanted emotions onto their society such as hatred towards the enemy and patriotism towards its own nation, keeping the productivity and structure of the society intact. Sounds somewhat familiar to Americas own endless war, our “war on terror”. The war and hatred towards our faceless foe with no perceivable end in sight. With the ‘war on terror” it manifests widespread paranoia which in turn gives the government the ability to restrict civilian liberties.
The second similarity is the perpetual warfare in both 1984 and America produces a cost to freedom, slavery. In the novel, the citizens are required to sacrifice their individual freedom in order to attain a collective freedom by ultimate submission without question to the party under the watchful eye of big brother. Freedom in America enslaves its citizens by having this fallacy that defines liberty by getting what you want, when you want it and that the government is there to give it. Government handouts and bailouts through subservient entitlement is …show more content…
In George Orwell’s 1984 practically anywhere and everywhere was under constant surveillance through what he called “telescreens”, they monitored every hour of every day in effort to try to detect possible thought crime. Thus came the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”. In America not but a couple years ago Edward Snowden, a former employee of The NSA (National Security Agency) did an interview revealing what the government was capable of and what they were doing behind closed doors pertaining to surveillance and monitoring everyone and that no one’s privacy was safe. For example, Snowden said any social media records and activity or telephone calls and browsing histories on the internet were accessible to any NSA analyst. Our private lives are recorded and collected in data files for the government to keep tabs on everyone and to keep watch. With that issue comes the inability to ever have a private moment in our lives and the future generations will never get to have any sense of privacy in least little bit. Everyone is a suspect when all is