1984 Rhetorical Analysis

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Winston feels very lonely in Oceania, since friendship and love are basically forbidden. He desires someone to talk to and someone to love. Winston's love and friendship interests change depending on the person. The concept of love in Oceania is controlled in a frightening manner. The loneliness is difficult for Winston. This changes when he is given a slip of paper that says, "I love you." "At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid." (pg. 110-11) Their love affair gave Winston something to live for."Not merely the love of one person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would …show more content…
A similarity between 1984 and my own experience would be the government's ability to monitor and read a person’s email. The government may not read everything that is typed out and sent, but between the NSA surveillance and what the Patriot Act at one point guaranteed, there was no guarantee that any emails sent by Americans were not read and categorized by the government. Another similarity is what smartphones have the ability to do. A default setting on most cell phones is location tracking. If a person would have their location turned on, then they're locating know available to be tracked at all times. Google also tracks what sites a person goes on, or ads a person clicks on, etc. All of that is used to customize what future ads and services get "randomly" sent by Google or Ebay or whichever company. In the same way, Big Brother knows what its citizens are up to 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. In the book, it's done via video tracking. In my life, that happens when my phone tracks where I have …show more content…
For example, in school we are taught that one plus one equals two. Even though this is correct, we have the ability to believe otherwise. Who’s to say the one plus one can’t equal three? Unlike modern societies, in school in 1984 they were taught that one plus one equals two. The difference being that they actually were forced to believe what they were taught. So if they were taught that by mixing the colors blue and yellow, you get green, they had to believe it. If they, for whatever reason tried to object they can be badly
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