Is Technology Used In The Book 1984 By George Orwell

“Big Brother is Watching You”, is one of the most obvious connections between today’s society and 1984. In the novel Big Brother, the supposed leader of the Party, rules the nation of Oceania and keeps endless surveillance on the population through telescreens. In the real world, conversely, many individuals have hand-held telescreens, called cellphones, which they carry with them mostly

Everyone has always wondered if people were ever watching them. Our technology today is capable to eavesdrop in on anyone’s conversations even if their phones are turned off. In the novel, “1984”, the party INGSOC uses telescreens to watch over the people and always know what they are up to. This denies the people’s rights and privileges to go about their business as they please. The technology we have today is almost exact to what big brother uses in George Orwell’s novel by taking over the public and private parts of our lives.

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”(Orwell 2), is a saying that surrounds society in the classic novel 1984. The author, George Orwell provides his audience with an abundant amount of themes throughout his writing. One very prominent one is Orwell’s psychological manipulation of his characters. As characters within this society are constantly surrounded by sayings such as, “WAR IS PEACE”, “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”, and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”(Orwell 4), Orwell shows the ultimate type of control within his characters. Orwell is able to achieve such psychological manipulation in his characters through physical control and the abundance of technology. Without Orwell’s use of telescreens, his characters would be able to have their

Everyday technology is advancing and has become part of people’s everyday life, from phones, cars, computers, and even the light switches in a room. With all this technology, it would be easy to use it for other things then what they were intended for. For example what if someone wanted to control what another person could do such as sleeping or going places. It would not not be that hard to try and control another human being, or even worse being watched every single moment of everyday for the rest of their life. That idea is not as farfetched as it may seem now with even more phones, computers, televisions and cameras in general. Technology is taking humanity nearer and nearer to world of Big Brother and the worse part is that if they are not careful, Big Brother could raise without any citizen ever knowing.

Several limits must be placed on technology to avoid totalitarian excesses represented in 1984. A government should not spy on its own innocent civilians. Governments should not ever have the power to use technology as a tool to control public and private behavior. A government should not make its citizens paranoid and scared with technology.

McCarthyism, the Baby Boom, and the development of the atomic bomb were all significant events that were taking place during the 1940’s and 50’s. Joseph McCarthy was a senator and became known for his movement against communism. He caused the famous Red Scare, which instilled fear into all the citizens that anyone who was un-American or different was a communist. (Education Portal) Ray Bradbury lived during the 50’s and experienced McCarthyism first hand; he had the fear instilled in him. He wrote Fahrenheit 451 and set it in the future of 2400, but why? Ray Bradbury used the idea of being homogeneous, the fear of technology, and the characterization of Mildred to show his apprehension of McCarthyism and its effect on the people in his life.

I believe the technology is the best way that Party uses to control its citizens. It does this by using technology for record people’s life and control people’s thought. As I mentioned in the previous essay, the most powerful technology used to control the people in 1984 is the telescreen. The Government place telescreens in each home and that allow the government to continually record citizens' activities. Because those screens are two-way things that allow party to watch everyone who has a screen all the time. The government also employs miniature microphones throughout the country that listen to people's private conversations. The telescreens and the microphones represent Big Brother’s invisible eye and ear on all the citizens who are

Dystopia, is the world one step closer or is it striving clear out of way? In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the story revolves around a dystopian society where books are banned and exiled, Guy Montag our protagonist, works as a fireman, going around and burn homes of those with books. Montag comes home, to find that his wife has overdosed on sleeping pills, Montag calls for help and two Handymen show up and save Mildred. The next day Montag goes to the firehouse, where the Mechanical Hound is first introduced, the firehouse is then informed of a old lady spotted with a book, they go out to the lady’s home, burning her along with her books, Montag is traumatized by this, and begins to rethink everything. He then begins to read

Through the novel 1984, the telescreens at homes are the symbol of heteronomy; in the society everything is controlled and people should follow the law. Except the telescreens, there are another instruments of domineering; omnipresence of though police and teaching children to inform on their parents.

In George Orwell’s 1984 novel, the government known as Big Brother controlled and monitored the citizens by numerous types of technology. The technology used were telescreens, thought police, the government was able to get complete control over the people of Oceania. While the ideas of technology were ahead of the actual time frame of the novel, they should be dismissed. While our technology continues to develop over time, there is not a way of telling how it will affect the future in the book. If it gets put into the wrong hands, important information and technology can be very harmful as shown in the novel 1984.

Imagine a world where all technology is used for one purpose, surveillance of the masses. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, he depicts such a world, in which the notorious “Big Brother” is the face of the government and the political party, “The Party”, runs the country of Oceania through a series of cameras and televisions called “telescreens” that can never be turned off. That novel was written in 1948 as a prediction of the future. As Orwell’s novel did not accurately depict the soon to come 1984, he may have been able to predict the future, past the current 2000’s. Mass Media and technology today has become widely available and functions as an everyday necessity. With advancements in technology such as WIFI, the GPS, and the smartphone, to name a few, where we are constantly being tracked, is our technology taking us closer to the world of Big Brother? To answer that question, one must examine how 1984 described society, what the extent of today's technology is capable of, and their similarities and differences.

The comparative study provides a cautionary tale on technology in modernity. This is by creating connections between the treatment of power and the individual. George Orwell’s novel, ‘1984,’ and Fritz Lang's pioneering film, ‘Metropolis,’ advocate the dehumanisation of the proletariat paints a false image of unity, which serves only the government. In turn, both composers broadcast rebelling for emancipation as the dominant response to oppression, repression and suppression. Orwell utilises satire to censure against future despots like Hitler and Stalin. While Lang’s focus on the stresses of the Weimar Republic admonishes against rapid industrialisation to prevent the polarisation of the population. The texts offer insight into the human disposition under complete control. With both texts analysing the impact of tyrannic regimes on this psyche as well as the value of emancipation perceived by it.

While the existence of technology makes our life more convenience, it can also pave the way for dictator to suppress their power on the population. Technology can be used in so many ways to take control over the public. Likewise, in 1984 book written by George Orwell in 1948, Big Brother used technology to spread its influence over society and to monitor and manipulate citizens (Khanna, 2015). In every household and even public places like canteen contain a mental square telescreen, that could not be turned off completely. The telescreen is not just a useless mental, it contained a microphone inside which purposely placed to spy on every word the citizens say. The telescreen also enable the Thought police to watch every individual at any time

Surveillance is prevalent in America today, whether it be a part of homes, stores, or streets – one may ask, when does this constant observation become too much? When does that same surveillance we so much praise about turn against us? George Orwell writes about when that instance occurs, with the concept of “Big Brother”, an omnipresent technological being created with the sole purpose of keeping everyone in check, eliminating thought and memory. The novel 1984, published in 1949, envisioned a world running on technology; cameras on every angle, microphones in every house, a world of self-policing, which is not too far off from what we have today. However, there are key differences; 1984 is setting for a dystopian world where government powers are without regulation, where there is little choice, where information is spoon-fed to its viewers. Nevertheless, technology today is striding towards a grim path, a path of no return.

Orwell cites in his book 1984, “Big Brother Is Watching You” (Orwell 2). He said that everywhere you went Big Brother could watch and see you. You cannot do anything wrong because someone or something is watching your movements all of the times. George Orwell correctly foresaw government’s growing ability to spy on their citizens and the citizens are unaware that government’s watching and tracking them. In 1984 every move and sound you made was being watched by the telescreens, as a result thoughts are also controlled. The telescreens are a propaganda tool used by Big Brother to control all their citizens. It is monitoring everyone’s speech and actions because those telescreens are everywhere. According to George Orwell as explained in his book 1984, “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide” (Orwell 62). It means that the tactics of the Party’s surveillance and technology are so advanced that even the smallest actions they do, can betray them into a big problem. Orwell predicted that people will give up their personal freedoms and right to privacy by being controlled all the time. Government