Compare And Contrast 1984

1984, a novel by George Orwell, represents a dystopian society in which the people of Oceania are surveilled by the government almost all the time and have no freedoms. Today, citizens of the United States and other countries are watched in a similar way. Though different technological and personal ways of keeping watch on society than 1984, today’s government is also able to monitor most aspects of the people’s life. 1984 might be a dystopian society, but today’s condition seems to be moving towards that controlling state, where the citizens are surveilled by the government at all times.

George Orwell’s work of fiction 1984 is a futuristic, dystopian novel about citizens living in a totalitarian London. In this society, the government maintains power by controlling as many aspects of its citizens’ lives as it possibly can. The protagonist, Winston Smith, attempts to fight against the government’s controlling ways. For some time, critics have argued that this book was intended as a warning of the scenarios that could emerge if citizens traded freedom for security and allowed governments to take away too many of their rights. 1984 is a powerful warning against the risk of allowing governments to control too many aspects of the lives of their citizens through propaganda and the acquisition of personal information. These methods

Orwell’s vision of the future is not entirely accurate, but it is not completely fiction. There is Big Brother around us, like in 1984. For example, the FBI surveillances phone calls and texts and could easily get into databases, without the permission of the person they are surveillancing. In some ways, we have to sacrifice a part of our privacy to the government. We are being watched, just as the people were being watched by Big Brother. On the other hand, we are given human rights and we do not

Since the beginning of humanity, there have always been the rulers, and the ruled. The rulers have always been the government, and the ruled has always been the people. One would believe that the government would be truthful and be interested in their people's well being, but clearly, this is not the case. In fact, lies are often more common than the truth. Facts are changed based on the governing party's current needs. The government wants to control their people, to have an unquestioning, thoughtless population that make them more powerful, as this is their main priority. As a generalisation, the government is more interested in their well-being than that of the people who drive it.

The society of “1984” is a reminder to show us that the future may look like this, if nothing is being done to prevent it or change it. Also “1984” is portraying the possible effect and what the world may seem like in the future, if the government has absolute power and control of the people. Orwell needed to grab the attention of the audience, so therefore he distorted the world that we live in and shaped it into the world of “1984”. The encounter of the government is uncommon to be seen. We, the people of America, take the rights that are given to every citizen for granted. We take everything for granted until a change of where the wind blows and that is when we begin to realize the privileges that we are blessed with. Nonetheless, Orwell presents the use of distortion in order to portray to the people the consequences of a government that is constantly bird-watching the citizens and ensuring that they are enforcing absolute loyalty to the power and control over the entire society. Because The Party, is obsessed with absolute power

When a reader engages and indulges into a piece of writing that involves a love story, they wish and hope for it to be a “happily ever after.” Unfortunately, it is not always the case. Such as, in Romeo and Juliet ending with the death of the two lovers, or the Titanic ending in the death of the beloved Jack. In the Novel, 1984, by George Orwell, there is a similar tragic ending to a love story.

Having a government control every aspect of life can happen. In the book 1984, George Orwell writes about how controlling the government is in the fictional place called Oceania. The book 1984 is about a man’s, Winston’s, life and how the government is always watching him. Winston dislikes the government and joins the so-called Brotherhood, a rebellious group against the Party. The Brotherhood ends up being a trap the government set up to capture Winston.

1984 Then and Now The novel, 1984, by George Orwell contains an interesting and distinct form of government that is a lot like how current governments are ran. In 1984 the Party, Oceania’s government, has access to everything. This allows absolutely no privacy to the citizens, as they are all under Big Brother’s control.

Orwell did not expect technology to be so advanced that it would take over his future. The phrase “Big Brother is watching” can be taken literally because of the surveillance cameras that are around Oceania. Compared to the world today, the government can track us just as well as they do in the book 1984. Privacy can’t be covered by curtains, we are always being watched.

Societies in which individuals bear underdeveloped emotions is evident in both novels. Psychological manipulation from authority yields a world consumed of dull mechanization rather than of people with sincere passions and concerns. The protagonist of 1984 claims that “to dissemble your feelings...to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction...” (Orwell 17). In both pieces of literature, the internal staleness within individuals is directly associated with their government, who utilizes it as a way to remain more powerful than the citizens it controls. The fact that Bernard Marx wishes to experience “what passion is” and yearns to “feel something strongly” allows the conclusion to be drawn that members of the World State

George Orwell’s 1984 is a great allegory about life under communist rule. Throughout the book there are many concepts that directly relate to the rule of Josef Stalin in the U.S.S.R.

In 1984 it is a lot more restricted i feel compared to Brave New World. 1984 has thought police, Spies and harsher rules i believe personally. You can’t think on your own, talk on your own or even lives the way you want. Everything in 1984 is controlled or at least tried to be. There is always a lupool that you can get around which is what Winston and Julia thought they were getting around.

Monica Guzman Mr. Frye English 12 October 22, 2014 Compare and Contrast 1984 Imagine living in a world without any love, intimacy, tenderness, or absolutely no affection or interaction between people. What if all the world offered was incite, suppression, and just lacked any kind of privilege we have as humans. Society would become entirely disparate and would completely drown in distress. The people who piece together a nation would slowly become absent minded and absorb themselves into every word the leaders of a nation impose on them.

The novel 1984 displayed what George Orwell believed would be the future. The government in the novel has taken over and has become super controlling. Orwell showed how the people of Oceania lived and worked in the same repetitive schedule everyday. While at home, they were expected to perform certain tasks that were approved by the government. Everyone was also expected to work for the government and do everything that it said.

I have begun reading 1984 by George Orwell.The novel is written through the perspective of Winston Smith.The world he lives in is controlled by the party who force propaganda to the public, encouraging people to not think for themselves and in fact punishes people for “thought crimes”. Winston among others are watched very closely and are listened in at random. A way they watch people is through the ‘telescreens’ that can not be turned off.