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George Orwell's 1984, 33 Years Later?

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1984, 33 years later? 1984 is set in a dystopian society in a futuristic Britain where the citizens there live blindly, not knowing that they are being fed false information and they just accept it not questioning anything. Ever since 1984 has been published, it has been a topic of wide controversy in politics and whether or not we are living in it. From many different points of view we are living it for example, surveillance in our society, and then there are the other points of view where they don’t think that we are living it. An example of this would be that the United States isn’t a totalitarianism government like how the Party is in 1984. In this essay, I will be stating how in our society today, we have both similarities and differences compared to George Orwell’s 1984.
There are many similarities between George Orwell’s 1984 and our society today. The Party in totalitarianism Oceania keeps its members under control by means of surveillance, a telescreen in other words. Orwell describes the telescreen as, “an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror” (Orwell, 2) and in today's society, could be compared to a cell phone, tablet, and even a computer. While in Oceanias society the telescreens are placed in their homes and everywhere in between, we buy our own not …show more content…

As O’Brien puts it, “We are 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.” (Orwell, 253) In Oceania, this makes sense because they have no laws, so how are they going to keep them in line? The answer to this would be that in order to stop crime, in their opinion, would be to stop it before it brings ideas of treason to the members of the Party, henceforth, thoughtcrime. Compared to our society, “The N.S.A, on the other hand is primarily interested in overt acts, of terrorism and its threats.” (Crouch) In

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