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Essay / 1984 21century told by Orwell. - 1016
I like to think of science fiction as a piece of literature brought from a future time. Forty years ago, when people were watching The Jetsons, no one thought it would be possible to live video chat with a person like we do today on Skype or Face Time. We live in a time where drones have become an everyday part of warfare, just as has been shown in Star Wars and Star Trek. 1984 is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949 that is about a totalist country named Oceania in which the people are heavily controlled by the government with techniques that, in Orwell's time, were improbable in the history of the 'humanity. Imagine for a few seconds a world in which you cannot have an opinion, otherwise you will be suddenly tortured. A place without love, respect or family. A large society made up of an elite who control the rest of the people like animals or worse. This book makes you sick thinking about what it will be like to live in this God-forsaken land, but what if we told you that this book is closer to today's reality than you could ever imagine. Maybe we're not so different from Owen and Julia. The ignorance created by a world government and an elite has made us think that we live in a land far away where everything is perfect and under control, but if you start to realize and open your eyes to the real world, you will notice that in this on the planet, everything is controlled and there are people who are starving and living in conditions worse than those shown in this “fiction book”. One of the most terrifying objects in this book is the Telescreen, an inner party spy machine that can hear you, monitor you, and even talk to you and give you orders! This telescreen brought back from the same hell is everywhere...... middle of paper ...... used to view pornography 24/7, and play games. Evidence of the failure of the system is when we notice that students care more about their grades than what they have learned, even though that is supposed to be the main goal of education. People don't talk anymore, now they text, no grammar, no punctuation, lol this, lol that. What's on their cell phone is more important than what's on their head and obviously the elites have no problem with that. Over time, everything has changed to come to the conclusion that in reality it has not changed at all, the proletarians will remain. proletarians, even if people speak different languages and have different cultures, at dawn everyone sees the same sun. One day, as Owen said, proletarians will seize the day when they understand that we are not so different from each other and create a world in which two plus two makes four, not five..