Nineteen Eighty-Four

Big Brother. A leader, tyrant and TV show. All of which have connotations of invading peoples already limited privacy. Big Brother originated in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the mysterious overlord that watches over every inhabitant through screens renamed “telescreens” in Orwellian newspeak. The main protagonist is Winston Smith is a 39 year old man who lives alone in Airstrip One of Oceania. He is constantly watched and unable to do or say anything that isn’t in line with what Big

In both Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) (hereafter ‘1984’), technology is treated as an instrument enabling the respective ideologies of capitalism and totalitarianism to control and suppress human rhythms and thereby fundamentally alter human values. Lang’s Metropolis idealistically depicts technology as a means of achieving industrial progress which reflects his contextual concerns regarding Weimar Germany’s economic redemption and fears for re-establishing social

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell expresses many important themes that provide an image of what society in the future would look like. The story is told through the eyes of Winston, a member of the Outer Party who disagrees with the government. Winston is under the assumption that everyone is corrupt. He thinks the government is enslaving the citizens of Oceania and taking away their basic rights. The main theme in Nineteen Eighty-Four is freedom and enslavement. The theme freedom

Sergio Valdivia Angela Koritsoglou English 101 OL3 17 May 2015 Nineteen Eighty-Four: National Surveillance and Privacy George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a warning telling us the events in the book are possible by means of surveillance and secret police. Winston Smith is the protagonist of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and gives you a first person look at the extent of surveillance. The setting of Oceania also plays a huge role on how the people think and just how the Party controls

Some could even say that we have arrived back in the future in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, with the lack of privacy that we currently possess.

technology is misused it could endanger human life. In the book “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell, he describes a society under constant surveillance and control by their government. The government in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” uses technology as a tool of surveillance to control and maintain its power. Therefore, it makes its citizens who desire a free life frustrated, as their dreams seem impossible to accomplish. “Nineteen Eighty-four” use of surveillance in control, predicts the technological surveillance

Bethany Rubaker April 30, 2013 Ms. Schulte Honors English 10, Period 8 Totalitarianism Takes Control Imagine living in a world where politics are everything and all forms of individuality and personal identities are shattered. A world where everybody is stripped of their rights to talk, act, think, or even form their own opinions, simply because they do not agree with the government’s beliefs. These aspects are just a few of the examples of things dictators would have control over in a totalitarianism

George Orwell’s novel ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’, surveillance is seen everywhere, and is practically how the world runs. In many instances main character, Winston Smith, is described to be avoiding certain spots in his home to be hidden from all of the cameras. The main being the ‘telescreen’, which is Orwell’s version of the modern television. In the novel ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’, George Orwell intrigues his readers to really think about the world that they live in, Nineteen-Eighty Four

And after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characteristics much as fate,destiny or any supernatural agency.” This quotation from Pauline Hopkins Contending Forces could not be more evident than in George Ewell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,a book about a man named Winston,who finally is aware of the wrong-doing of his totalitarian government and throughout the story he meets people who think the same,as well as people who think differently.The reader, throughout the story, can see how the cultural

Patricia Cornwell once said that “the root of all evil is abuse of power”. This truth is essential to the central focus in George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Before the cold war, people of the west supported the rise in communism. However, having seen the different side of communism, Orwell wrote the novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, to warn his ignorant western buddies about the repercussions of the spread of communism. Through the use of irony, antithesis, and dark tone, Orwell effectively