took place on September 11, 2001 American citizens have been living in fear. The government has turned to taking drastic measures of security in order to keep the citizens safe. In George Orwell’s book, 1984, he states, “No past government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance,” (Orwell 205). 1984—a book that imagines a society in which the government watched its citizens’ each and every move—demonstrates how our societies’ may be sharing similarities. The question being is
is an unsettling one (2). People’s right to privacy is something that throughout history has been cherished and something that was once a commonality. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and the escape to a state of truly being alone has been slowly belittled to a point in which it is nearly nonexistent. Modernized society has ensured that they’re very few places in which people can make the claim that they are alone. George Orwell’s 1984 depicted a grave future in which society is