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Big Brother Is Watching You Response

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In the afterword of the book, the commentator describes the book as a warning. This book written by George Orwell portrays the negatives of this type of society and shows us the dangers of the government having complete control over everything people do. In this book society was portrayed as “brainwashed” and did not even know that they were being controlled in every way. Some of the warnings that the author wrote into this book had to do with the technology, the propaganda, and the language at the time. Dangers having to do with the telescreen, with the signs like “Big Brother is watching you”, and with the Newspeak dictionary were all warnings. All of these tactics were used by the government to control and to monitor the people living in this society. Technology plays a huge role in human development and in people’s lives. Every day there are knew mechanisms that come out that are meant to benefit our society. In this case the telescreens were meant to monitor society. They were able to see and hear everything that people …show more content…

Billboards, magazines, newspapers, commercials, TV shows. There is almost no getting away from it (almost as if it was like today’s telescreens). All of these opportunities for exposure of different people and ideas create opportunities for people to alter their views and thinking. In this book, “Big Brother is Watching You” (written through out the book) is meant to be a scare tactic. It is to make sure that the people do not do anything that will be looked down upon or disapproved by the Party. Today, propaganda plays a huge role in how we view ourselves and our bodies. Anyone can think a certain way whether it is “correct” or not (if the message is strong enough). The fact that people are always seeing “Big Brother is Watching You” shows how people can be influenced and even the wording matters. If the sign stated “Little Brother May Be Watching” people probably would not be as

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