Are we being watched? Are we being monitored at all times? In the novel, 1984, it raises so many questions about how our government in the United States today is strangely similar to how the Party runs things. The United States has adopted some practices the Party has been using the entire time on it citizens. Some of these ideas are war, Newspeak, and the theory of Big Brother is always watching. These are things that is happening today that happen in the world of 1984. Have you ever heard of a time where the United States was never fighting someone? The United States have been at war with tons of different countries from Ukraine to Pakistan. We are almost all the time in a state of constant war like Oceania is to Eurasia or Eastasia. ““Perpetual
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This are extremely similar to the Newspeak language that is being created in 1984. Removing all meaning from language is one of the main objective of the Party. “The primary aim of Newspeak is to reduce the meaning of language as well as the number of words possible. To this end, Newspeak removes all synonyms and antonyms.”("A look at Orwell's Newspeak.") Shortening the language inevitably takes all meaning and passion from the word and person. If people start to speak like this then they are bound to think like it too. The United States does not have to worry about shorting the words or phrases themselves because most citizens are already doing it. The phrase “Big Brother is Watching You” almost makes an appearance in every part of the novel. It sparks the question, is Big Brother watching you? Well on May 20th 2013 an employee of the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden, leaked documents about how the NSA Surveillance really does. “I'm willing to sacrifice [my former life] because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building," Snowden said in interviews given from his Hong Kong hotel room.” (“Edward
This are extremely similar to the Newspeak language that is being created in 1984. Removing all meaning from language is one of the main objective of the Party. “The primary aim of Newspeak is to reduce the meaning of language as well as the number of words possible. To this end, Newspeak removes all synonyms and antonyms.”("A look at Orwell's Newspeak.") Shortening the language inevitably takes all meaning and passion from the word and person. If people start to speak like this then they are bound to think like it too. The United States does not have to worry about shorting the words or phrases themselves because most citizens are already doing it. The phrase “Big Brother is Watching You” almost makes an appearance in every part of the novel. It sparks the question, is Big Brother watching you? Well on May 20th 2013 an employee of the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden, leaked documents about how the NSA Surveillance really does. “I'm willing to sacrifice [my former life] because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building," Snowden said in interviews given from his Hong Kong hotel room.” (“Edward