Imagecy And Privacy In 1984, By George Orwell's 1984

The book 1984 written by George Orwell, George explains what would happen in life if the government controlled everything, including the minds of the citizens. George does a fine job at this by using a lot of imagery in his writing, everything can be visualized. 1984 was written right after World War 2 ended. Orwell’s intentions on writing it were to insure that a future as controlling as the books would never occur. The reading takes place in the London but the country has changed to Airstrip One. In Oceania Airstrip One where the party is totalitarian the leader is referred to as “Big Brother”. There is another party referred to as the “Brotherhood” where Emmanuel Goldstein is the leader. The two parties did not get along because brotherhood does not stand for what Big Brother is doing. In the book 1984 privacy and individualism is lacked since there freedom of being private is taken away.

To keep order in the world and watch over the people easily, the government put cameras in T.V’s, “Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (George Orwell 1.1.3). Since there was no chance on shutting off the monitor they were always being monitored. This was very helpful for the government by making it easy to watch people, but terrible for the people who are being watched because they have no privacy. Privacy does not exist in the book. Since there was no privacy there was no individualism either, no single person can do what they want. This applies to all groups besides the proles because they have no knowledge about anything. “Thought Police watch the people through tele screens, microphones and helicopters” (1984). Multiple sources of technology watch the people closely