The Telescreen: Novel Analysis

In today’s time, people are watched by the government through security cameras and cell phones. Unlike in the novel 1984, people were watched through telescreens and were allowed no individuality. People think having thoughts is not a privilege but compared to the novel 1984 it is. In the novel having thoughts was not allowed, Winston took a risk by buying a diary and keeping his personal thoughts in it. It was very dangerous seeing that the government could have come in and killed him at any time. In the novel 1984, the telescreen was full of confessions from thought criminals. They confessed their hatred for the government. Today daytime talk shows are full of white trash that enjoys sharing stories about tales of their pathetic existence with the world. Although 1984 was made to be a work of fiction in a dystopian world, many aspects of the story are true in today’s life, yet there are a few differences. …show more content…
Programming ran 24-hours a day. Today there are televisions in every room with programming running 24-hours a day. There is a huge similarity in that, but the telescreens were to watch people while televisions were for strict entertainment purposes. Another difference is that people can turn off televisions and telescreens could not be turned off unless they were an inner party member. Telescreens were in all public and private spaces to protect against thought crime. Today people have security cameras everywhere to prevent crime, yet the security cameras were provided for the safety of citizens, and telescreens were just to prevent individuality.

Synthesizers create most music today. In the novel, music was created by machines. This was to make sure no one could take credit for songs. This is similar to today because no one can actually take credit for most songs because most songs are remixes or collages of dubs from other people’s music. They do differ in how each piece of music is