1984 George Orwell Privacy Analysis

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Privacy and Surveillance in 1984 In society, people need their own space. Privacy is crucial for someone to have their own thoughts, feelings, and become their own individual self. When you don’t give people the privacy that they need, they start to do things secretly, whenever they get the chance. It causes them to lie about how they really feel because they are scared that whoever is watching will not agree with what they do. This series of problems is showcased all throughout the novel 1984 by George Orwell. In the book, Orwell uses a lack of privacy to show how characters are unable to grow when someone is always monitoring what they are doing. Throughout the book, the government invades everybody’s privacy to ensure that something is