Orwell's 1984 Compared to Today's Society

Orwell depicted the society of 1984 to be deprived of information and starved from the actually truth. Ran by "Big Brother", he feared that the people will not have the voice that they should be granted to have. And today's society really is ran by "Big Brother" - or rather Big Brothers. Society as a whole, with all the individuals encompassed within it, are all forms of Big Brother. Individually, we are what Orwell calls "ministries." But together, society forms Big Brother as a whole. A single individual does not impact society but rather society impacts the individual. Trends and social media keep everyone in check; if anything brand new is innovated, it is instantly shut down by self-promoted critics. 

It is an interesting place that we live in. We are apart of society and yet we are bound together with it. How fascinating is it that we deprive ourselves of information and innovation. We seemingly try to live in a small world and deny anything else that falls outside of that boundary. And this societal trend will never change course for decades to come. We may not hang people like Orwell predicted, but we may decimate their figure publicly. The new will never come, but the old will never leave. 

1984 ends with the Ministry of Love murdering Wilson's character, but letting him live physically. And that is what is so similar in today's society: that the parts that make people unique are frowned upon. We are all lifeless shells bound to society's bidding.

Individual puzzle pieces do not make up Big Brother.