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Freedom Of Individuality In George Orwell's 1984

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The atom consists of three components. It is one of the only aspects in life that is constantly with someone. The atoms watch, spy, and evolve as the people around them stand still. A similar events occurs in 1984 through Orwell`s created world and today`s modern society. As Winston Smith a rebellion man, attempts to figure out and reveal the truth behind the Party ideas. He is undertaken by the magnitude of the Party countless amount of surveillance and its tactics to subdue one's ability to act themselves. Likely, today`s modern government falls under these same principles of eliminating and spying on everyone. Consequently, as time progresses the need for complete power over citizens drives Orwells created world of 1984 and todays modern …show more content…

As in times when one might perceive as being alone the Party “Always has eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed-no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull" (Orwell 27). The lost of your personal privacy is demental to one`s mental health. This feeling of knowing that the only the small space within the brain is safe, might led some to become insane.The only place where secrets are best kept secret are within one`s skull its the only place where people can not break inside unless they break one down to telling. Thus, one can no longer act a certain way causing one`s freedom of individuality to slowly fade away. Even more, in an article by Chuck McCutcheon (A freelance writer/editor) even the “Civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and others also have cited growing unease with other surveillance measures, including the use of unmanned “drone” aircraft and tiny video cameras” (Government Surveillance). Through the use of cameras and the knowledge that everything will be watched by another human causes people to question even themselves. As in Orwell's`s created world today`s government uses even the tiniest of inventions to obtain information on its people. Since all of this occurs the human then …show more content…

As seen when the torture of Winston had began, the Party is “not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them” (Orwell 253). After the Party accomplishes its goal of turning enemies into straight poser of society they have the ability to make someone so afraid of acting in a certain way they will no longer go against the Party.This happened in modern times with the government implemented scared straight programs in prison to turn peoples feelings around, so they won't have these same thoughts again. Furthermore, in an interview with Snowden (America`s Whistle Blower) and Richard Porton (editor at Cineaste) snowden is put off as a guy who has “an array of personalities who share his belief that the NSA’s surveillance program has moved on from focusing exclusively on suspected terrorists to making every American with a computer or cell phone a potential target of invasive snooping” (Birthplace of a Whistle Blower). No longer does the government worry about the dangerous people, but the regular people the government has lost trust in. If all groups of life the government deals with concerns them

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