The more security you have the less freedom you have. In the book 1984, by George Orwell, the book deals with security and freedom although out the book. The book is revolved the theories of George Orwell and what he thought the world would be like in the future. George Orwell wrote about a crude world where all the people were controlled by one thing or another. The people in this story like Brave New World were like dummies they could not think for themselves. In 1984 revisionism, telescreens, and Big Brother are used to control the people.
In this book revisionism is used to control the people because things are always changing to fit what the government wants you to know. Revisionism is the act of changing or revising something that is old or wrong. The effect that revisionism had on people was that it controlled people without them really knowing. "The past was dead, the future was unimaginable"(28). This meant that revisionism change the past so much that it was dead because they was do real past. It made the future unimaginable because no one knew what he or she would change around to fit the leaders views. "With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into .
nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm"(33). This idea was that if we the people used revisionism, we could rewrite history and as we did we could delete the .
present. We would have a world without thought police, big brother, or the party controlling us. The effect that revisionism had on people was that it controlled them so much that they couldn't think for themselves because simply they didn't know how to.
Telescreens are pretty freaky they are like two-way mirrors they are used to watch the people when the people are watching the television. Telescreen is a video camera or a peep whole into your world.
