1984 and Today’s Society Essay -- English Literature

1984 and Todays SocietyThough 1984 was written well before the year 1984 and it is now 2005,there are many similarities amid the book and todays society.Relationships of all kind have less value, the government watchesones e actually move (or at least has the capacity to), and large groupsof people are influenced to believe opinions at school due to thegovernment. The government has regulations and records on everythingand everybody. George Orwell may not have been very far frompredicting the right when writing 1984 in 1948.In the United States today, anywhere from something as harmless astelevision shows to the government itself promotes less sanctity of aloving family some(prenominal) like 1984. In the book, children went to school andwere trained to be spies and turn adults into the thought police.Parsons (Winstons comrade and neighbor) was turned in by his ownchildren. He had perpetrate a thought crime. This shows what littlerespect the children in the book had for their pare nts, and thebaffling effect was the parents getting use to and accepting it.Parsons had told Winston that hes very kind of proud of hischild. Big Brother discouraged emotions and anything with meaning infamilies. Children are raised today with households based on financialsupport, affairs, and anything but original love. Children are taught thatdivorce is okay, and the value of marriages has greatly decreased.Till expiry do us part may now really mean Till death do us part orif you cant work out any problems and do things my way. In 1984,Winston separated with his wife Katherine. By law he could not getmarried again unless Katherine died but this was strictly todiscourage love and sexual relationshi... ...the schoolscontradict information the children is given from the parents. The guess of evolution for example, has been taught as a theory and notcreation. Parents may not spend much time teaching their childrenabout creation and the child has except the schools information to turnto. Sex education being another excellent example, students in highschool are taught to have arctic sex instead of no sex at all. Thismay also contradict parents and their teachings.With relationships downplayed, the government having access to onesprivate life and their children, George Orwell was very correct aboutthe future of society and humans alike. Though the book was ratherintense when it came to the outcomes, Orwell described a world of thegovernment brainwashing the people. ofttimes of society does not realizewhat is going on or think it is a negative effect.