Karla Vargas

English IV
Ms. Fulton
10/16/2020

1984. In what ways does our modern society, today's people, have similar and different
concerns about privacy?

1984 ​by George Orwell, made a​ “t​reatise that was to serve as an indictment of Stalin’s
reign and as a cautionary tale of what could happen to any country if the citizens let their
conscience sleep and allow a government to seize too much control over them; limiting their
freedoms and restricting their speech, thoughts, and actions, and causing people to live in fear of
the consequences of not adhering to that government’s policies,​” ​according to ​whatever source
name here​. The novel is how ‘crime’ and thus, ‘law’ are perceived, nothing can be illegal.

All events in the novel take place in a version of something false, unspecified in the future. At
work, Winston becomes interested in the black-haired girl (also known as Julia), a mechanic in
the Novel Department. At first, he fears that he is a member of the Thought Police, but his
unfounded suspicions are dispelled when she passes him a note in the hall that says: "I love you."
From that moment on they begin to verse in secret, first meeting in the woods, and later in a
rented room, above Mr. Charrington's shop, in the prole district. All of these places are out of
reach of surveillance screens, or so they think.

In the novel, we have access to Winston Smith’s thoughts and memories, but no other
character’s. Because Orwell uses third-person (referring to Winston as “he”) rather than
first-person (referring to Winston as “I”), the narrative simultaneously describes Winston’s
thoughts and feelings while commenting on them. The party targets and cuts this emotion as it
drains people’s energy from devoting all their life to the party. In 1984 the party targets and cuts
this emotion as it drains people’s energy from devoting all their life to the party.

Truth manipulation, or "reality check" as Winston calls it, which contributes to the eternal and
totalitarian power of the Party. You can make people believe everything you tell them because
you rewrite a history. The technology didn't develop exactly as Orwell predicted it would, but it
wasn't far behind. In the morning, Winston can barely get out of bed and has a coughing fit, from
which he can barely recover by lying on his back and breathing deeply, after which he has to
exercise in front of the telescreen that controls his life.

The novel's tone is dark, pessimistic, suggesting that the book is intended as a warning of how
miserable life will be if the forces of totalitarianism are allowed to prevail. The day that Winston
was writing his diary he was in his apartments drinking and all of that. The novel takes place in
his apartment and station of coffee and workplaces of the novel with foul smells, noise, and a
lack of privacy.