sensational nature‚ created to be widely shared online for the purpose of generating ad revenue via web traffic or discrediting a public figure‚ political movement‚ company‚ etc”. (Time) There are many similarities between the themes in the book 1984 by George Orwell and the current trend of spreading fake news in today’s culture. In 1984‚ the only information the citizens of Oceania are told is exactly what the government wants them to hear‚ regardless of the accuracy of the reports. Today in 2017‚ fake news
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reading. In George Orwell’s 1984‚ he goes so far as to not only carefully choose his language‚ but also delves into the very idea as to why speech is fundamentally important to life. Orwell is a master of syntax‚ as can be seen in his other novel Animal Farm‚ and does not stray in this dystopian fiction. Taking place in the year 1984‚ this story explores what life would be like if every thought and word you said was monitored by the government; if you speak
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open-ended war on terrorism. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel‚ 1984‚ the government utilizes surveillance methods to maintain control over the people of Oceania. The telescreen is a tool operated by the Party to continuously monitor the activity of the people to inhibit any degree of public or private disobedience against the Party. Orwell refers to
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Communist China come to mind. These draconian regimes resulted in millions of deaths and the dehumanization of people. These governments took away the rights of its citizens‚ and made live unbearable. George Orwell‚ a satirist‚ comments on oppressive governments‚ such as Hitler’s‚ Stalin’s‚ and Zedong’s. Orwell comments on these governments through many of his works‚ namely his novel 1984. 1984 focuses on a man named Winston Smith‚ who is a propagandist inside the Party‚ or the ruling government. The Party
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subject to total and absolute state of authority. The system has no recognition of limits to its authority to regulate every aspect of citizen’s public and personal life (Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ 2015). After reading the book 1984 written by George Orwell‚ I truly believe that it is definitely possible for a government to control the minds of its citizens if the government is well organized‚ manipulative and powerful. A totalitarian government may gain total control in the areas of its citizen’s
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of Science Fiction‚ a novum is “a conceptual challenge to everything we hold dear‚ often including today’s hard-won scientific knowledge and activities‚ and even the nature and worth of human consciousness‚ individual and social alike” (Broderick). George Orwell’s classic story‚ 1984‚ was not intended to be written as a science fiction novel but rather as a political dystopian story warning about the dangers of a future that has embraced totalitarianism. However‚ 1984 still falls under the spectrum
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not allowed to have any independence whatsoever. Each person that is manipulated would turn into a mindless drone if the world was taught to believe something that incorrect. Through psychological scare tactics and the creation of new invention‚ George Orwell presents a theme that no person should be manipulated by any other individual in any society because it leads to the destruction of one’s individuality and free expression. With psychological scare tactics‚ the Party threatens the public and
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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Abuse of Technology is one of the main themes in the book 1984 by George Orwell. The main character‚ Winston Smith has trouble accepting the dystopian society of Oceania; which is a nation that is run by a figure called “Big Brother”. Big Brother watches over the nation and controls humanity. They do this by abusing the little technology that they have in Oceania. It is fair to state that we have far more technology than the world of 1984‚ but we don’t abuse that technology
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society‚ Postman’s assertion that Huxley’s vision is more relevant than Orwell’s vision is found to be untrue. While Orwell states some valid points in his prediction of the future‚ Huxley’s vision seems to be much more familiar and recognizable when we take a look at the world around us. Although we don’t live in a complete police state that controls the media like the citizens in George Orwell’s “1984‚” the American government still uses various methods in order to influence which sources of information
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1984 Essay George Orwell had prophesized’ what the world would be like 35 years from his time in the book 1984. The theme of 1984 is more likely to be obedience of the people more than oppression. Even though oppression is suddenly the thought that comes to mind when you think of 1984‚ the real purpose of the oppression such as on their freedom is for the people to be obedient and to support the party and Big Brother. There is much of oppression of freedom in 1984 in many ways. Some of the forms
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