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Telescreens In 1984 Essay

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Imagine the World as a place with screens that watch ones every move, and microphones placed in every wall, and a posters stating BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Ultimately, people would behave a lot differently when someone is watching their every move, in terms of thinking twice before they blurt words out and thinking about the actions they commit. Winston Smith is a member of the outer party, in which his every move is watched. He lives in Oceania, where a totalitarian government is established and every sound, move, or thought is look over. The members of society are constantly being watched, and the government controls their actions and thoughts. In Geroge Owell’s novel, 1984, he illustrates methods of control through telescreens, thought …show more content…

While Winston is conversing with Smith old boy during a Ministry announcement, the girl from the fiction department is staring deep into Winston’s soul. Winston starts to sweat and thoughts start to wander in his head; however he remembers that it is horrible to have his brain wander. “ It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you are in a public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away” (60). The telescreens dispersed throughout the town of Oceania can detect ones mood in any setting, which frightens the population of Oceania. “Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even in the ideals that the party was trying to achive.” As Winston is arriving at his flat, a voice announces over the telescreen and can detect any slight sound Winston makes. “There was of coarse no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the thought police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork”(3). Evidently, the people controlling the telescreens could tap into a person at any given time. Winston decides to keep is back facing the telescreen because it will be more safe for

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