Comparing George Orwell´s 1984 And Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

In the mid-twentieth-century, humans were faced with an array of warnings and dangers due to the rise of two popular works of literature during this time period. By analyzing both George Orwell’s 1984 and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, it is clear that both authors clearly had distinct and focused messages that forewarned society about the possible dangers that can be faced in the near future if change was not implemented. In 1984, Orwell depicted a dystopian world in which the government controlled every aspect of an individual’s life. The novel’s main message was to warn readers of the dangers associated with allowing too much power to flow into the hands of too few people, and it also focused on the opportunities in which a government …show more content…
In Oceania, all government is controlled by a governing unit entitled the Party, and the Party is able to keep its reign over this society through the use of the Thought Police, which are essentially the law enforcers of Oceania. Over top of this authority, however, is the tyrant known as Big Brother who is known to watch over all of Oceania through the use of telescreens that are placed within all public and private locations. Through the use of constant government surveillance, the government in Orwell’s novel help dictate and shape the overall plot that Orwell is able to create throughout the entirety of his …show more content…
While standalone GPS systems can be found attached or built-in to many automobiles, these devices are also found in most cell phones as well. Because of the nature of the device, courts recognized early on that use of a GPS device to monitor one’s location violated the Constitution’s “prohibition against unreasonable searches”. In the United States v. Williams trial, “a federal district court in Kentucky ruled that activating an in-car GPS device to locate a vehicle did not violate the Fourth Amendment, but the court highlighted the fact that the device was used only to identify the location at a discrete moment in time, not to “monitor” the vehicle’s movements”. When looking at the constitutionality of the case, it is clear that GPS systems can be activated at will whenever ordered by a government official with higher power, as loopholes are constantly being used in order to intrude on people’s privacy given to them by the Fourth Amendment. This similarly happens in Orwell’s 1984 as the government in this novel can see and hear into any telescreen of their choosing with the simple flip of a button, as they find this to be constitutional to the standards and beliefs of the world Big Brother constitutes for his citizens to live in throughout the