Contemporary Post 9/11/2001 American Life as a Parallel to Winston's experienced in 1984

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Contemporary Post 9/11/2001 American Life as a Parallel to Winston’s experienced in 1984
Introduction
Nineteen eighty four is a novel that was written by one of the world’s renowned authors of his time in the United Kingdom, called George Orwell. George has had several titles to his name and this one, was one of those titles that made great impacts. Ideally, this name was the one he used as part of his writing career, but his real name was Eric Arthur Blair (The Daily Beast). One of his other works that made shock waves in the literal world was the Animal Farm. By the time he died at the age of 46 years, Eric had several books to his name and most of them related to the aspects of social and political science.
The 1984 novel carries a story of several characters in the continent called Oceania, which was a large collection of islands found on the southern pacific. Much of the novel takes place in London, where one of the characters called Winston works and lives. In Oceania, there is a great deal of government interference in the lives of the populace. Most of the activities of the government involve unwarranted surveillance that includes private and public spaces. This means that the citizens are watched upon from the streets, at work and inside their homes. There are televisions and microphones that are hidden in almost all places in the city of London (The Daily Beast). There is also wide spread manipulation of the public, where the government have come up with a system that prosecutes those people that have any ideas of individualism and free thoughts. Apparently, those people that are found to have individualism are prosecuted according to the thought crimes laws, which include torture and brain washing. Big brother is a party that is led by one of the society’s elite and carries out the surveillance and the torture. The population in Oceania is divided into three categories where the smalle...