These advanced machines are unable to be turned off and relieve any manner of personal privacy that the members of the outer-party should be entitled to; Winston even states ‘the only privacy you get is the few inches inside your skull’. This form of surveillance is very extreme and no doubt expensive, but in the eyes of INGSOC, a very necessary supplement to their complete domination over the party members. The telescreens had yet another use of detecting whether people were committing face-crime. A second sophisticated means of controlling people would be the use of thought police. Thought police were trained solely to seek out and detain any party members who were proven to be committing thought-crime.
One of the main pieces of evidence in George Orwell’s novel 1984 was the use of constant surveillance of their people with telescreens and spies. When the people are working, on break at home, or any other activity in the society is heavily watched and observed by the government. They are restricted from having any privacy and individuality. They are even spied by their own kids who will report them if they say anything bad about government. The main piece of evidence in Aldous Huxley’s story Brave New World was the different things that each caste was allowed to like certain jobs, certain places to live and how they were raised.
The citizens are told that he is the leader of the nation and the head of the Party. Orwell is focusing on the fact that we may someday live with cameras around every corner and “Big Brother” constantly looking over our shoulder. Americans will now too have their every utterance listened to by Big Brother in public through surveillance-capable street lights now being installed in major cities across the country which can record private conversations. Just as the citizens of Oceania could never be sure of their privacy, a deputy of Homeland Security Director told FOX News Charlotte, “you would never know” if Big Sis was watching (Watson, 2011). The system detects movement and if too much movement is detected, the police are notified.
Orwell uses a simile; “hovered for an instant like a bluebottle” to suggest that the police patrols were of serious threat. Winston contradicts this; “The patrols did not matter” to contrast what Orwell has just put forward. Winston then speaks of the Though Police which he believes to be of a much larger threat; “Only the Thought Police mattered”. Orwell does this to place heightened importance on the Thought Police and their ability to have control over all people. With the possibility that every thought is being monitored, fear is created among those who have negative thoughts towards the party.
He was completely content as the narrator confirms, “His life was perfect, and he wouldn’t change anything.” He had restrictions to his peaceful life and that he wasn’t supposed to listen to any other music but his own. When he listened to Bach, his punishment consisted of never playing or composing music for the rest of his life. Christian couldn’t stand the thought of never playing again. He couldn’t brush away the feeling of emptiness welling up inside. He was sad because he was forbidden to play music after he broke the rules.
Harry Caul, the film’s main character is a paranoid man of few words who does everything possible to keep his life as private as can be. Yet, his profession involves the exact opposite; invading others privacy. The plot of the film is mainly based on a conversation involving a male and female engaging in an affair. Due to the fact that much of the conversation was missed by the surveillance recordings, it leads Harry Caul to believe that they are in grave danger; however the truth is the exact opposite. The Conversation’s absence of sound in many shots represents the ambiguity and absence of the reality in the line “He’d kill us if he had the chance” and the lack of love and emotion in Harry Caul’s life.
Period 9/10 Ms. Cordivari English 5 V for Vendetta Vs. 1984 When the movie first began, I noticed many similarities between 1984 and V for Vendetta. There was voice on a loudspeaker alerting the citizens of curfew time. This restriction the city has on the people in V for Vendetta is similar to the immense amount of control that the party has over the people of 1984. Once I saw the scene where V blew up a building in protest to the government, I knew he would easily be comparable to Winston because they both saw the corruption from within. Both Winston and V want to take down a dystopian government that rules by people intoxicated with power.
Perhaps Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to express his feelings of how the governments would come to control everything and anything it wished to do. It is also possible that he wanted t tell of how mind control and torture techniques could be used to make an individual or an entire nation do what the government wanted. In his novel Orwell used the image of a man who stood in a shadow that covered his face. This was to make him anonymous and unrecognizable. The figure was called "Big Brother" and this figure was placed on posters and put all over the place with the saying, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU."
He feels alienated, meaningless, and dehumanized. Gregor is not capable of establishing a relationship, he says: “The steady stream of faces never become anything closer than acquaintances” (Kafka 8). Even as a human he feels unable to connect with others. This feeling becomes magnified through his transformation; not only is he emotionally alienated from society, he is also physically isolated in his room. According to Freudian’s theory he displays signs of a core issue referred to as Fear of Intimacy.
Lastly, there are’nt that many rules about living at home. Some places you have to do do certain things to make sure you don’t upset the people around you, but living in a house you don’t have to worry to much on that. Also living in your own house, many houses have garages. On the other hand living in an apartment also has advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages of living in an apartment is it’s a lot cheaper, it’s less space, and there is more than one houdehold in building so your not alone all the time.