Similarities Between V For Vendetta And 1984

I also believe the manipulation of technology and social media is another issue. In the dystopian worlds, the truth for everything is hard to obtain. In the movie V for Vendetta and the novel 1984, both governments decide what the public want to show on the news/telecasts. The public is forced to believe what the government says. In V for Vendetta, the London government only talk about the incident with a cover-up story, so the public will not completely know what happened; some incidents were bombing in BTN, Three Waters, and etc. Similarly in 1984, Hate is a telecast created by BIG BROTHER; he uses this telecast to make the public hate the rebellion. Similarly with our society, the government uses technology like webcams and social media
like facebook to manipulate us and the information around us. Tristan Harris, Ex-Design Ethics for google, states that “[it is] easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” (Medium, 2016). Technology and social media are used to hijack the public’s minds.