1984 By George Orwell Analysis

As an American Citizen, are you actually free? Are you really free when you are constantly being watched and told what you can and can’t do? We are under surveillance 24/7 and you don’t even notice. the U.S government may know more about you than you think they do The pentagon says that they will expand its domestic surveillance activity. The president has also authorized legal phone taps without warrants. And now federal agents may raid your home with no warrant only a insufficient sense of suspicion. As an African American in the U.S, that might not be such a good thing for myself or others like me. The president has granted the NSA the right to tap law-abiding citizens phone calls without a warrant. They say they are doing so …show more content…
1984 by George Orwell is an great example. In 1984 the proles are constantly under surveillance by the party. They have cameras and microphones in bedrooms, on the streets and even on trees. the party even does warrant-less raids. Just like when Syme was vaporized for knowing too much, and this hints that he was being spied on because there is no other way that the party could know how much insight he really had about them without doing so. Or when they came to search the bar and killed Winston at the end of the book .Making everyone overly hesitant about what they do or say. Nobody likes this idea, but they cant intervene in any way. The party goes through all this trouble of taking on the role of an overseer to prevent any sort of plotting against them. Just as the government is doing with the usage of wire tapping. But the U.S government is mainly looking to counter terroristic threats while intercepting criminal conversations (drug deals, plans, confessions to previous crimes, etc….). both government forces impede the peoples freedom by monitoring their actions like a teacher would to a class that is testing. The eradication of any form of suspicion seems to be vital to both government figures. In other words, my research and 1984 are connected because of the discrete and blunt usage of domestic surveillance in today’s society and the

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