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The World of 1984 Compared to Today

            George Orwell created a dystopian future in his novel 1984. Winston Smith is an outer party member who works in the records department in the Ministry of Truth. His job is to rewrite the past so it is in accordance with the present. Winston is not like the others in Oceania. He secretly hates Big Brother and The Party. Winston has a love affair with another outer party member named Julia. Winston and Julia elope to a room above an old antique shop owned by Mr. Charrington. O'Brien, an inner party member, senses Winston's discontent for the The Party and invites him to his home to become a part of "The Brotherhood" an underground organization with the intent of bringing down Big Brother. One day while Winston and Julia are in the room above the antique shop the "Thought Police" charge into the room and arrest Winston and Julia for being "thought criminals". Winston is taken to the Ministry of Love to be interrogated. While there Winston discovers that O'Brien is actually a supporter of The Party and set Winston up. While in the Ministry of Love O'Brien explains he will make Winston "love Big Brother" which he eventually does. In the novel 1984 George Orwell correctly foresaw public surveillance, and people willingly giving up their right to privacy out of fear. Orwell incorrectly predicted the government trying to break the ties people have with their families and each other, and trying to abolish the act of sex.
             Orwell imagined a system of public surveillance where people do not have privacy in public or in their own homes. In reality what the government is able to do is more sophisticated. In the case of U.S.A. v. Manuel Cuevas Perez circuit judge Wood said "They made the system that George Orwell depicted in his novel, 1984, seem clumsy and avoidable by comparison." This quote says that the system of surveillance imagined by Orwell pales in comparison to what the government is capable of doing.


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1. 1984 vs our world today

Our World Today Our world has several similarities to the world of 1984. ... Dishonesty from the government in wars past has also happened in our world as well as the world of 1984. ... 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. ... Could our world be doomed to mutate to that of the world of 1984? ...

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2. 1984 Research Essay

The setting in 1984, Oceania's government, our modern world and government are some of the different ways that the contemporary surveillance can be compared to. ... Hidden microphones in 1984 can be compared to audio surveillance today. ... In both 1984 and in our modern world, new tracking devices and make it easier to be tracked down and heard. ... In conclusion, we are living 1984 today. ... We slowly and patiently start to tolerate that we are basically living 1984 today, with only a few exceptions....

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3. Compare and Contrast: 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

Dystopian fiction has become a staple in today's literature. ... Things that would be considered commonplace by the reader, like reading books or having rebellious thoughts can get a person tortured or killed in Orwell and Bradbury's worlds. ... Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, is a lowly Outer Party member. ... The end of 1984 is entirely hopeless. ... Classic novels such as these may be exaggerated, but they offer an important warning for people even today. ...

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4. The Misuse of Technology in 1984

George Orwell, born Eric Blair in 1903, wrote the chilling futuristic book 1984. ... As Orwell was writing 1984 in 1948, television was just emerging from the developmental hiatus forced upon the broadcasting industry by World War II. ... In 1984, everyone knows that they can be seen through the telescreens. ... Even today there is less privacy because of technology. ... Even today propaganda can be seen on television, and the government has ways of tracking people and taking away their privacy. ...

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5. Literature Reaction Essay - 1984

In George Orwell's novel, "1984," it shows a world of deep government control. A world where thoughts can be perceived as treason and language is rewritten to prevent individualism; a world opposite of utopia, and dystopian world. ... Comparing this book with today's society there are some similarities. ... Re writing history was what was done in Russia when Stalin was in Power as many other government controlled methods mention in 1984. ... In conclusion, the state of the world described in 1984, can seem at first farfetched and very unlikely to ever come to pass, but when looking...

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6. How the Governenment Runs Your Life

In the real world we are fast approaching a community with total surveillance. ... This sort of control does not compare to the totalitarian regime that exists in 1984. ... Propaganda is alive and well in today's society. ... In today's world language is forever changing due to the introduction of mobile telephones and the Internet. ... We may be speaking a new language such as 1984's Newspeak. ...

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7. A Totalitarian Society In 1984

The totalitarian society in the novel is headed by a corrupt government, and portrays the future as a "schizoid, psychotic world" (Zehr 419). ... The title of the novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, implies that the world described in the novel does not occur in the present but it could in the near future. ... Orwell's novel must have had some effect on readers because the type of society he describes is nothing compared to our society today, yet. ... Orwell's world of 1984 is the wartime world of 1944, but dirtier and crueler, and with all the endurances and nobility that mankind shows...

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8. Manson vs the Media

In order to understand the influence of artists such as Marilyn Manson have on the youth today, the subculture that Manson is apart of will be examined and compared to the image the media presents as today's youth. ... One incident in October 1984, a nineteen-year-old teenager shot himself in the head. ... Such far out suggestions in the media can not only turn the world against one artist but against the rock genre as a whole. The media can influence the public to such an extent that Ozzy, the bat eating, suicide causing rocker, nearly twenty years on is know seen as a loved celebrity ...

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9. Controlling and Manipulating Power

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