In this blog I will be examining the use of distopic fiction in the book "1984" by the re-nound writer George Orwell.
I have chosen a quote that best shows how this novel is a great example of dystopic fiction: "Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed - no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull."
This quote shows a prime example of how a dysopic society works such as not having the ability to live freely or have a private life. All your happening are recorded or watched and examined to get the powers that be what they want.
In today’s society we have much of this happen under our noses . Many of the forms of moderating peoples actions and moves and whereabouts are being used by the government to stop terrorism of scout out enemy territory or other necessary things. but who is to say that they can no just flip over and watch and monitored what their people are up to and make actions on the ideas or things that they discover. who is to say have not already, who know weather the government is not watching us now, not using there top computer trackers or satellites to watch our every move and record all our happening.
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I agree. While we are still a ways from a full blown dystopic society, there are many ways that we are being manipulated. I think in some ways the agency of control isn't a government or even a religous agency. It is corporate control. We are slaves to lululemon, mac, macdonalds, walmart, starbucks, etc... We worship material goods, and spend our lives attaining them. Perhaps advertising is the new mind control?
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