Compare And Contrast Essay On 1984 By George Orwell

In today’s world, we see many new development of technologies that has the potential to change our society like 1984. For example, the police now have a device that can read license plates and check if a car stolen or uninsured. Humans know that the National Security Agency can observe what we do online and Google searches. It also seems that almost every stores we would go to would always ask for our phone number and ZIP code as part of any transactions. If you have read the novel, 1984, we can see the many similar qualities that our world and Orwell’s world share. They both have a government that keep us under surveillance everyday to make sure that no one is disobeying the U.S laws and regulations. Many people don’t seem to care what the
Big Brother places this device all around Oceania as a way to broadcast government propaganda, news and approved entertainment. Similar to our world, we use today’s websites like Facebook that can track our history of comments and posts as well as governments that can into our computers and view our records. There are even surveillance cameras that can spy on average person going through his daily life. As you see, the government will always have some sort of way to watch what we do everyday but some human beings don’t seem to care about. Soon enough, the governments can take advantage of this technology and eliminate anyone that tries to overthrow
We can agree that some of the qualities we share from Orwell’s world can lead us to think that our government can abuse their power. This leads on to my theme, monster, because soon enough our government can use monstrous acts to control every human beings in the world. We think that our government is our savior because it provided laws, regulations, and happiness to our society but sometimes we can’t always trust what the government does. Based on my opinions, I think no one is full of morality because we all know that deep down inside everyone has their dark side. Now, even though our government made our society prosper till today, we have to realize that soon enough our government will corrupt to the point where they be a totalitarian regime. Like I have said, everyone has a monster side deep down inside of them but they aren't ready to show it yet. I hate to say it but I think that in the near future our government will realize that with the amount of power they have they will use it to their full potential to control their society. Look around you and all I can say is watch and protect