People have always felt more than a touch of anxiety at the thought of being observed and watched at all times, even in one’s most private moments. For the most part, this sort of constant and unrelenting surveillance has been limited to fiction and, theoretically, the countries that were once behind the fearsome Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union. There are a multitude of examples that could be used to show the potential choking and chilling effect, the crippling anxiety, and perhaps even the futility of resistance when one is faced with a society where everyone and anyone is being watched. Still, only a very few literary examples could pull it off quite as well as George Orwell’s classic novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
The novel takes place in a fictional setting in the year 1984, a time when England is ruled by a group known as the Party and headed by a man known only as Big Brother. The anxiety comes from the fact that everything is constantly being observed by a variety of means, not the least of which are the various multitudes of screens that allow party members to watch anything and everything that people do. The government also has departments involved in...
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