Destruction Of Privacy In George Orwell's 1984 By George Orwell
The Government is peeping into our lives through phones, laptops, streetlights, surveillance cameras, even drones. This links to the most frightening part in George Orwell’s book, 1984, which contains surprising similarities between his ways of reviewing what he believed the future would come to. Although his satirical book was written in 1948, Orwell displays a variety of aspects relating to the destruction of privacy in our present day. Orwell himself was a socialist, who had very strong political views. He spent his time in 1937 fighting in the Spanish Civil War; where the chaos later caused him to become cynical. (Corre, 2014) He later writes of his satirical piece 1984 where the novel provides the audience with a futuristic insight
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These handy little screens were stationed almost everywhere in George Orwell’s dystopian world, where they contained security cameras and microphones. Sounds familiar, does it not? Wander into any public area, peer into a building’s corner and a black dome can be spotted there. Chances are there’s one behind you right now, or even the computer camera will do just fine. After all, no one is safe from the …show more content…
Oceania, the three superstates (America, Australia and the British Isles) contained within Orwell’s dystopian world, surveys their inhabitants out in the open through its various ways of detecting communication. Just like many citizens in Australia, and outside of our continent, most are glued to their phones while out in public but, how sure are we that no one is listening in to our so called ‘private’ conversations? We’re all aware that the Government is serious when it comes to hijacking communications between two people and is a rapidly growing subject within our community. Unlike the 1984 setting, the explosion of social media has skyrocketed which has essentially clogged the system with misleading ends. Although Professor Des Ball an expert on defence and security said that “intercepting a mobile phone call was as simple as identifying a number…” (McPhedran, 2014). Funnily enough, looking at the Telecommunications Act 1979, it clearly states that “…it’s an offence for a person to intercept or access private telecommunications without knowledge of those involved in that
These handy little screens were stationed almost everywhere in George Orwell’s dystopian world, where they contained security cameras and microphones. Sounds familiar, does it not? Wander into any public area, peer into a building’s corner and a black dome can be spotted there. Chances are there’s one behind you right now, or even the computer camera will do just fine. After all, no one is safe from the …show more content…
Oceania, the three superstates (America, Australia and the British Isles) contained within Orwell’s dystopian world, surveys their inhabitants out in the open through its various ways of detecting communication. Just like many citizens in Australia, and outside of our continent, most are glued to their phones while out in public but, how sure are we that no one is listening in to our so called ‘private’ conversations? We’re all aware that the Government is serious when it comes to hijacking communications between two people and is a rapidly growing subject within our community. Unlike the 1984 setting, the explosion of social media has skyrocketed which has essentially clogged the system with misleading ends. Although Professor Des Ball an expert on defence and security said that “intercepting a mobile phone call was as simple as identifying a number…” (McPhedran, 2014). Funnily enough, looking at the Telecommunications Act 1979, it clearly states that “…it’s an offence for a person to intercept or access private telecommunications without knowledge of those involved in that