1984 George Orwell Privacy Analysis

In Orwell’s 1984 the country of Oceania privacy is non-existing. Everything is monitored either by cameras inside "telescreens" or hidden microphones used to control Anti-Party actions. This is similar to America's government, in today's society, everyone is subject to the possibility of being spied on by the government through the vast amount of cameras we face in our everyday lives. But how are we supposed to acknowledge this to be a problem when we are so willingly and blindly contributing to it by striving for innovations in technology? While at the same time the INGSOC is also manipulating the citizens and trying to force them to obey they non-existing laws. Similar to America’s government that hide and manipulate some events when something that people might find suspicious occurs. …show more content…
While at first glance it’s easy to say that this is done to monitor potential terrorist attacks at the same time this is just something that has been allowed. What is to say that they don’t have information about the everyday life of Americans and access to their very private information that they don’t others to see or for only specific people to see. Meanwhile in Oceania cameras are hidden in any place that they can’t be seen and are always spying on the citizens. “It was only a twitch, a quiver, rapid as the clicking of a camera shutter, but obviously habitual.” (Orwell’s 1984 pg 82). In the part of the book it’s obvious that cameras are almost everywhere and they quickly take pictures of anyone committing a crime. It also mentions that they have to be also careful of not talking in their sleep since it can also get them in trouble since it means they are thinking. So both the country of Oceania and America have something in common when it comes to how privacy is treated and there is one last common thing that they both