Is George Orwell's 1984 Becoming a Reality?
Is George Orwell’s 1984 Becoming a Reality? George Orwell's vision of 1984 is a dark and immoral place to be, where freedom and trust are nonexistent. It is a world where most people do not know the meaning of privacy and have no sense care or love towards one another. Orwell's depiction of 1984 is possible and our own world is slowly becoming into the novel which he wrote. In different places of the current world people are subjected to little or no privacy as they are in the novel 1984. The technological development of cameras and voice recorders used to invade society's privacy are parallel to the telescreens within the text. Many governments in the world in which we live are seeking ‘absolute power’ and are depriving people’s privacy to an extent of becoming a totally unjust government. Based on what is happening in our world right now and what has happened in the 20th century, the world of 1984 becoming a reality is possible in our society and would be detrimental. The world of 1984 is slowly becoming a reality. The main aspect of control in 1984 is the fact that they are able to monitor all people in Oceania using surveillance technology in the form of telescreens. As Winston states, “You had to live-did live in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, ever move scrutinized” (Orwell 3). This is accurate of our society today. In this day and age, we have not only urbanized advanced surveillance systems, but our government has allowed them to be placed in the homes of those that they find something to be “not right” or “not the normal”. The article “Orwell’s 1984 becoming a reality in 2013” talks about how, specifically in the technology category, almost everything we do is being recorded. The article states: “Every step we take, every move we make, “Big Data” is watching us. Our computers, phones, and countless other devices are generating long trails of electronic data- information that can be stored and