Get 1984 Devopled By John R Edlund Module 2020-2024

Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on the Soviet Union in the era of Stalinism, and Nazi Germany.

In 1984, literary elements include metaphors, allusion, irony, foreshadowing, personification, and similes (comparisons that use ''as'' and ''like'').

Its most notable technological weapon is the telescreen, a kind of two-way television that watches you as you watch it. Telescreens literalize the idea that Big Brother, the mysterious figure who represents the Party's power and authority, is always watching the people of Airstrip One.

It tells the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of the miserable society of Oceania, who is trying to rebel against the Party and its omnipresent symbol, Big Brother. Winston works for the Ministry of Truth altering the history of Oceania to fit the government's current narrative.

1984 as history One of the key technologies of surveillance in the novel is something called the telescreen, a device very much like our own television. The telescreen displays a single channel of news, propaganda and wellness programming.

Modernization in 1984 takes the form of technology, used for controlling means. By placing telescreens and clandestine microphones all across Oceania, the Party monitors its constituents 24/7.

What influenced the book 1984? George Orwell wrote 1984 during World War II, having seen the rise of Hitler and Stalin. Orwell feared that totalitarianism could easily take over the U.S. and Britain and wrote the novel as a cautionary tale.

Telescreens could be made. "The tele- screen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."