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The Role Of Censorship In George Orwell's '1984'

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In the ever-changing ways of the modern world, one could compare the level of control to the society of George Orwell’s 1984. The American way as we know it, is in danger of becoming 1984 as a result of the Media Censorship, Government Surveillance, and the Control of Information through Education. In 1984, Oceania is a totalitarian society in which the ruling party, Ingsoc, has full control over the media and the minds of the inhabitants. They have information control as well as hold their citizens under constant surveillance. Censorship can take place in the media such as people in charge picking and choose what they want the public to know and what they don't want to. “It may be some days before I can get hold of one. There are not many in existence, as you can imagine. The Thought Police hunts them down and destroys them almost as fast as we can produce them” (Orwell 177). The main protagonist of the story, Winston, got a hold of a heavily banned book known as The Book by Emmanuel Goldstein, this book contains everything the party doesn't want the subjects thinking. It was delivered to Winston by an inner party member named “O’Brien” who also happened to be part of the thought police, though, Winston did not know this at the time, he gave him the book for …show more content…

America was founded on a base of democracy and has put in place charters to prevent the state from becoming as powerful as Oceania from 1984. In the realm of Oceania, the ruling party Ingsoc is all powerful but America has a system which creates laws and freedom. America has laws and regulations such as the first amendment in place to stop the jurisdiction from total control, however, that does not stop the authorities from finding loopholes in the system to spy on its citizens. There is always a way around the law if one would wish to find it, this is why simple regulations cannot stop a Coup d'état from

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