Orwell And 1984 Comparison Essay

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What are the differences and similarities between the elimination of privacy in oceania and in our society today?

1984 written by George Orwells in 1984 is about states surveillance. The main character of 1984 was Winston. He worked for the minister of the truth and changed documents. Winston made propaganda for governments employer. The party who had the power was the big brother. Nothing could be hidden from big brother. Everything you did were watching by big brother. They said big brother is watching you.

An american producer and filmmaker found a mail from an unknown person to name of citizenfour. He claimed had information about NSA which monitor and control our privacy. She with a journalist met citizenfour in Hong kong. His real name was
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Both of them knew more about the truth and government than the simple people. Winston hadn't chance to expose what big brother did, he accepted that with sitting in a coffee and following daily news. Snowden succeed to expose what USA did what monitoring people to name of fight against terrorism and elimination of secret conspiracies.

Big brother monitored just the people of England and big brother was like a dictator. They had telescreens and Winston was aware what they did and then he started to write in a notebook.

NSA monitored citizen of every country in the world by computers screens attached to their internet, not just america even every one in all the world and it was to dangerous than big brother.

we are living in 2017 and we have more access to electronic devices than 30 years ago. Surveillance by a country or an agency is very shameful and it's take privacy from us. it calls attack to our privacy and there is nothing to the name of privacy, America is a democracy country and what surveillance they take freedom of speech from people. No one dare to protest and say something wrong about the government. We want our

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