It is feasible that in the future machines may be more powerful than man, to such an extent that machines control mankind, mechanizing human life. This is seen in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, a post-World War III society in which machines are more powerful than mankind (Ponniah 229).The Technology in 1984, by George Orwell, has a similar influence. 1984 portrays a totalitarian society, powered by the icon of Big Brother. Big Brother and his Party use many methods to keep their citizens suppressed and to give them false hopes, some of which include Thought Police and technology. One such form of technology in 1984 is the telescreen –an instrument used mainly for issuing propaganda and observing citizens. Propaganda is directed at the Party members’ emotions of safety; while the close scrutiny of the telescreen is aimed at the Party members’ sense of fear. In George Orwell’s 1984, citizens are programmed, by the Party, into instinctively subjecting themselves to Big Brother through the different uses of telescreens.Manipulative propaganda is constantly streamed out of the telescreens to convince the citizens into presuming that the Party is improving their lifestyle. This causes the citizens to obliviously believe any report coming from the telescreen and subsequently subjugate themselves to the Party without any rational reasoning, allowing the citizens to think of Big Brother as their saviour. Propaganda is targeted at the Party members’ sentiments of contentment and security. “The phrase ‘our new, happy life’ recurred several times. […] Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom. He could not follow the figures, but he was aware that they were i…
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