Where the National Security Agency (NSA) stands in our world has often been compared to the state of surveillance in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Privacy in our world and in the novel’s world is something that makes you wonder if privacy no longer exists. In our society the NSA always spies on us through are devices with people having no clue that they are invading there privacy. In Oceania, privacy is something that no longer exists. Everywhere you go you are being watched and heard by microphones and telescreens. George Orwell used 1984 as a warning where he thought hopefully we’ll be prepared. George Orwell’s novel 1984 is accurate and effective in it’s prediction’s towards the future on the NSA surveillance state.
The novel 1984 is prescient with its state on surveillance the way it shows how people are …show more content…
George Orwell portrayed the surveillance problem in many ways in the novel 1984. In many ways where it relates a lot to our society. George Orwell portrayed technology like another instrument of repression. ‘’He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day’’. This portrays how long a telescreen would spy on you. As well as how one is always being watched and that privacy doesn’t exist in Oceania. With no privacy basically freedom doesn’t exist. With no freedom and privacy you have no identity. No privacy, no freedom, no identity equals no life it will destroy souls in a respective way. Edward Snowden claims the widespread surveillance is far beyond the ominous of author George Orwell’s dystopian world. ‘’The types of collection in the book - microphones and video cameras, tv’s, that watch us - are nothing compared to what we have available today’’. Some may say that Orwell’s prediction was 100% accurate, but our society has surpassed that to the novel