1984
Submitted by workworkwork on February 27, 2008
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The political atmosphere is very gloomy in the opening pages of 1984. People’s basic rights seem to be taken away from them, such as the freedom to speak, the freedom of privacy, even the freedom to think. The government, or at least ‘the Party’, is very keen on controlling her citizens. Posters can be seen that says ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’, giving people a very constrained feeling. It is interesting to note that there is a kind of police that wants to control your thoughts. The ‘Thought Police’ are ‘…snooping into people’s windows’. It seems that the police had the right to know what you were doing. Your privacy is also taken always from you, as there are cameras that monitor every movement of you in your own home.
The government might be a totalitarian government, as they offer to tackle economic problems with three year plans. Another clue is that the...