Life as we know it seems pretty great. We have everything we could have ever wanted: prosperity, family, shelter, food, privacy and under normal circumstances, a non-totalitarian government that gives us many freedoms as well as good, honest people. If you think about it, aside from petty unhappiness, life is all anyone could dream of. But is everything really how it looks on the outside? Is everything exactly as we think it is all the time, or are we just as foolish as the people of the age of 1984?

Take a minute to think about the following comparisons. 1984 had telescreens and microphones that could see and hear everything everyone did at all times even if the telescreens couldn’t see them. They were lurking behind every corner, in every room and every household. Our world would never have anything like that. But what are surveillance cameras? Don’t they do the same thing? They may not be everywhere and they don’t shout out orders, but how do we know if in a couple decades they won’t be everywhere. Surveillance

As you can see, the world we are living in has many similarities to the world of 1984. George Orwell created a world based on his experience in the forties that much mirrors the time we are living in today. The harsh realities he tried to make people face through his innovative book are actually the harsh realities we are faced with everyday. Could our world be doomed to mutate to that of the world of 1984? Perhaps we should seek out our society’s own flaws and try to better them before we face the destruction from our own actions.

Dishonesty from the government in wars past has also happened in our world as well as the world of 1984. An example of this could be when Hitler rose to power in Europe in the nineteen thirties and forties. After becoming chancellor of Germany, he then began falsifying medical records to cause the people of Germany to believe that the Aryan people were superior both physically and mentally to those of other races. He brainwashed his followers into thinking that by exterminating this plague upon humanity, that the Aryan blood would breed the super-humans of the future. Over six million died, due to the perverse thoughts this man persuaded others into believing. We also do not know for a fact if the information we are receiving on the news is completely factual. They may be putting a spin on it whether to attract more viewers or to cause us to believe something different for one reason or another. The same occurred in 1984, showing how history repeats itself. When Oceania became caught up in the war; the people forgot they were being deceived by the government at the time, which was Big Brother. They were told things and made to watch the “Two Minutes Hate” to send through them a bitter hatred toward the enemy. This kept their attention off their real problems and on something that may not have even been happening. The Party also was in the process of transforming the language of the people to that of “Newspeak” which was an uneducated language used to deplete the thought process. This also made the people less intelligent which made having power over them easier. As Winston realizes, “And at the same time the consequences of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.” I believe the war wasn’t even going on. If it was, then how would it change enemies and alliances every few years or so and why couldn’t anyone ever win? Winston seemed to

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