Examples Of Ethical Issues In 1984

George Orwell’s novel 1984 reflects on the society of dystopian city Airstrip 1 where main character Winston Smith lives. Along with the many other citizens, Winston is controlled by the Inner Party by constantly being monitored via telescreens that keep sight of everybody and their actions. Besides using telescreens the government also easily arrests people in any case of “thoughtcrime” which consists of any thoughts that regard disobedience towards the government. Thoughtcrime and telescreens are two of the several factors that reflect the extreme surveillance in 1984. Orwell uses surveillance as the central theme of the novel to spread his idea that the usage of more extreme surveillance could eventually lead to a totalitarian society. On a less extreme scale, today’s society also has a significant amount of surveillance but many question whether or not more surveillance is necessary. With the many current text sources, it is certain that we need less surveillance in order to keep a stable society that does not take away the individualism of people.

An ethical issue is a situation or problem that makes a person have to choose between what's right and what's wrong. Most of these ethical issues have no answer but are resolved by what sounds more appealing and acceptable. Throughout the novel 1984, there are many examples that the reader sees as ethical issues. Most of the ethical issues can be easily picked out while reading. George Orwell, the writer of 1984 also includes ethical issues that readers might not see the first time. Some of the easier ethical issues to find in the novel would be the Thought Police and the Telescreens. A few examples of the more difficult ethical issues would be, 2 Minutes of Hate, Helicopter Patrols, and the Junior Anti Sex League.

In George Orwell’s 1984, society greatly impacts the decisions of the hero. This dystopian novel focuses on the

Despite what many people believes, our technology may come closer to the world of Big Brother, but its morality and use of this idea will not become the ways of Big Brother: to watch and control what people thinks.

In the book, Orwell shows how people are affected by the telescreens when Winston says “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.” (Orwell ) This suggests that the Party’s surveillance tactics are so advanced that even your thoughts might betray you and get you into trouble. It also shows that people have lost any sense of freedom that they previously had. The implications of this are that the government is forcefully manipulating the people so as to avoid any rebellious behavior but in the process, it has also taken away their privacy. The idea of being heard or watched by something when you think that you have privacy is something that has traveled through time and still exists today. An example in modern American society could be how the brand-new Alexa is said to “record snippets of what you say in the privacy of your home and store it on Amazon servers.” (Tsukayama) This shows how even in modern times that there are means that might be used to spy on people and keep track of what they say and do. This is important because an American society that is said to be democratic and free still has a sense of secrecy and loss of privacy. The people in this society should find it troubling that they don’t have privacy the same way that people in a totalitarian regime had lost their freedom.

Many Americans do not realize that at any time of the day the government could be observing their “private” lives. On the other hand, some individuals have predicted the government would develop a form of constant surveillance, like George Orwell who forecasted a futuristic government, which used technology as a relentless eye on the members of the society in the novel 1984. 1984 was correct, to an extent, in predicting that the government would increase their usage of technology to constantly observe their people, whether in public or their private homes.

The book, 1984, by George Orwell, created a world of horror where our freedoms are taken away from us, and where our news and history tells us lies. Where you’re watched constantly, and punished for personal thoughts that would be unapproved by the Party. Those who would find you and punish you for those crimes are the Thought Police. This representation of police and surveillance isn’t very different from our own today. The Thought Police are very similar to our very own NSA, or National Security Agency.

In the story, 1984, we learn that a telescreen is a transmission device, used for sending and receiving information. As seen in the story, this device is mainly used for the Party to spy on Inner and Outer members, in order to maintain order and increase prevention for people to not express any political significance. Corresponding to the story’s scenario, this issue is a satire of governments watching over their civilians, in George Orwell’s time. An example of modern day Orwellianims, relating to this subject, is of the U.S government spying on their civilians. The evidence to this example comes from a Wall Street Journal video, which states that the United States’ NSA and FBI act of secretly recording people through servers used on their cellular or computing devices. Although the companies, that

In George Orwell's "1984," telescreens are used as an inescapable tool of surveillance employed by the Party to maintain control of the citizens of Oceania. Readers quickly learn that they are everywhere throughout Oceania, monitoring individuals and instilling a constant sense of fear among the populace. The Party's surveillance is all-encompassing, with citizens under constant watch through telescreens, microphones, informants, and even thought police. In my paper I will be reviewing the dangers of constant surveillance, how surveillance is depicted in "1984" and its significance to the world we currently live in.

Orwell is ultimately warning us about the hopelessness for the future of humans and how easy it is to become corrupt with power. In 1984, the party has taken away from the people their free will. The book uses propaganda and many lies, such as changing history to the way they want it and making them believe anything they say is true, such a "2+2=5", changing their people into emotionless and thought controlled human beings. Romantic love is eliminated, along with physical pleasure, so that the love for Big Brother only remains.

Everyone has always wondered if people were ever watching them. Our technology today is capable to eavesdrop in on anyone’s conversations even if their phones are turned off. In the novel, “1984”, the party INGSOC uses telescreens to watch over the people and always know what they are up to. This denies the people’s rights and privileges to go about their business as they please. The technology we have today is almost exact to what big brother uses in George Orwell’s novel by taking over the public and private parts of our lives.

Technology is apart of mostly everyone’s life and daily schedule, but often people fail to realize the fact that the government has the ability to monitor everything someone does through these devices. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, a futuristic government spies on their citizens through technology found all throughout their homes. The government used secret microphones, telescreens, and the thought police, a group in charge of finding rebels against the party, in order to monitor what people say and think. There are many examples of this in today’s society: Amazon’s Alexa, Samsung Smart televisions, and social media apps. Amazon’s Alexa and Samsung Smart Televisions are voice recognition systems

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel set in the future from when Orwell wrote it, predicting that without socialism, totalitarianism would take over the world. The novel depicts a society in which the people are living under a completely totalitarian government in Airstrip One that, in an abuse of power, rules every aspect of their lives, both private and public. The omnipresent Big Brother watches and listens to its citizens (more specifically the Party, the lower-class Proles are not deemed important enough to be monitored) at all times through devices called telescreens that are carefully placed in order to capture one’s every moment (though, through an architectural fluke in his apartment, Winston is able to get around this for some time to write in his illegal journal). Big Brother is not only attempting to control their citizen’s actions and behavior through the telescreens, however, they are trying to monitor their thoughts as well. It is against the law in Airstrip One to even think something that goes against Big Brother or the Party. The crime labeled “thoughtcrime” could get a person vaporized, in which they may be be killed, however, it is inevitable that all records of them are erased and, therefore, they cease to exist whether or not they are alive or dead. This punishment can also be appointed to people who even appear to be too intelligent, as Winston suspects

They are monitoring what you say and what your thoughts are with the cameras or by brain waves, so you can’t commit a crime. If they are monitoring your thoughts will that stop people from treating other people just because they

Societies, around the world, have always had the desire to control their members and manipulate their reality. With the help of technology, this might be achieved easier than previously believed. Using something as ordinary as your phone will give the government access to one-way constant and unauthorized surveillance. Your phone is also a way for media outlets and corporations to get you to purchase their products by constantly bombarding you with ads about things that you might be interested in. Since using our phones and seeing ads are so familiar to us, we don’t truly realize how the government and media outlets are manipulating and spying on us. Works of fiction such as The Truman Show and Neuromancer, have attempted to defamiliarize these concepts by showing them at work on a larger scale. Both protagonists, Truman and Case, respectively, have fallen victim to manipulated realities and unauthorized surveillance. Authority figures, in these works, are using