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1984 by George Orwell Study Notes

Winston Smith is a low-positioning individual from the decision Party in London, in the
country of Oceania
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The Party controls everything in
Oceania, even the general population's history and dialect
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Notwithstanding thinking
defiant musings is illicit
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As the novel opens, Winston feels disappointed by the abuse and inflexible control of the
Party, which disallows free thought, sex, and any statement of uniqueness
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He
has likewise gotten to be focused on a capable Party part named O'Brien, whom Winston
accepts is a mystery individual from the Brotherhood—the baffling, fabulous gathering that
attempts to oust the Party
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He sees an associate, a delightful dull haired young lady, gazing
at him, and stresses that she is a source who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime
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The Party likewise asserts that Emmanuel Goldstein, the
charged pioneer of the Brotherhood, is the most perilous man alive, however this doesn't
appear to be conceivable to Winston
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One day, Winston gets a note from the dull haired young lady that understands "I cherish
you
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In the long run they lease a room over the used store in the
prole locale where Winston purchased the journal
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Winston is certain that they will be called and rebuffed sooner or sometime soon (the
fatalistic Winston realizes that he has been destined since he composed his first journal
passage), while Julia is more down to earth and idealistic
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Finally, he gets the
message that he has been sitting tight for: O'Brien needs to see him
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As an individual from the intense Inner
Party (Winston has a place with the Outer Party), O'Brien drives an existence of
extravagance that Winston can just envision
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He instills Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a
duplicate of Emmanuel Goldstein's book, the statement of the Brotherhood
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Abruptly, fighters scow in and seize them
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Charrington, the proprietor of the store, is uncovered as having been an individual from the
Thought Police from the beginning
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O'Brien invests months tormenting and mentally
conditioning Winston, who battles to stand up to
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Here, O'Brien tells
Winston that he will be compelled to defy his most exceedingly awful dread
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Winston snaps, begging O'Brien to do it to Julia, not to him
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Winston disdains
the gathering and has illicitly bought a journal in which to compose his criminal musings
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Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he modifies chronicled records to fit the
requirements of the Party
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He is
grieved by the Party's control of history: the Party guarantees that Oceania has dependably
been unified with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, however Winston appears to review a
period when this was not valid
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Winston spends his nights meandering through the
poorest neighborhoods in London, where the proletarians, or proles, live tarnished lives,
moderately free of Party observing
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" She lets him know her name, Julia, and they start a secret issue, dependably watchful
for indications of Party checking
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This relationship goes on for quite a
while
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As Winston's issue with Julia
advances, his contempt for the Party develops increasingly serious
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Winston and Julia go to O'Brien's sumptuous loft
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O'Brien affirms to Winston and Julia that,
similar to them, he detests the Party, and says that he conflicts with it as an individual from
the Brotherhood
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Winston peruses
the book—an amalgam of a few types of class-based twentieth-century social hypothesis—
to Julia in the room over the store
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Mr
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Torn far from Julia and assumed to a position called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that
O'Brien, as well, is a Party spy who just put on a show to be an individual from the
Brotherhood keeping in mind the end goal to trap Winston into submitting an open

demonstration of disobedience to the Party
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Finally, O'Brien sends him to the feared
Room 101, the last destination for any individual who restricts the Party
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All through the
novel, Winston has had repeating bad dreams about rats; O'Brien now straps an enclosure
brimming with rats onto Winston's head and gets ready to permit the rats to eat his face
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Surrendering Julia is the thing that O'Brien needed from Winston from the start
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He meets Julia yet didn't really feels
anything for her
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Context
Conceived Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was taught as a grant understudy at
prestigious all inclusive schools in England
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In the wake of moving on from Eton, Orwell chose to forego school with
a specific end goal to function as a British Imperial Policeman in Burma
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His fizzling wellbeing, which agitated him for the duration of his
life, made him profit to England for gaining strength take off
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Motivated by Jack London's 1903 book The People of the Abyss, which point by point
London's involvement in the ghettos of London, Orwell purchased worn out garments from a
second-hand store and went to live among the exceptionally poor in London
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He later lived among dejected coal excavators in northern England, an affair that
made him abandon free enterprise for vote based communism
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The ascent to force of tyrants, for
example, Adolf Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union enlivened Orwell's
mounting scorn of totalitarianism and political power
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1984 is one of Orwell's best-made books, and it stays a standout amongst the most effective
notices ever issued against the threats of a totalitarian culture
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He delineated that danger brutally in 1984
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Not at all like an idealistic novel, in which the essayist means to
depict the ideal human culture, a novel of negative ideal world does the careful inverse: it
demonstrates the most noticeably bad human culture comprehensible, with an end goal to
persuade perusers to maintain a strategic distance from any way that may lead toward such
societal corruption
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That Orwell proposed such a general public a simple thirty-five years
into the future aggravated this apprehension
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As opposed to being
overpowered by totalitarianism, majority rules system eventually won without a friend in the
world War, as found in the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breaking down of the Soviet Union
in the mid 1990s
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Characters
Winston Smith - A minor individual from the decision Party in not so distant future London,
Winston Smith is a dainty, delicate, pondering, scholarly, and fatalistic thirty-nine-year-old
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He harbors progressive dreams
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Julia appreciates sex, and claims to have hosted illicit
relationships with numerous Gathering individuals
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Her
disobedience to the Party is little and individual, for her own particular pleasure, as opposed
to Winston's ideological inspiration
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Big Brother - In spite of the fact that he never shows up in the novel, and however he may
not really exist, Big Brother, the apparent leader of Oceania, is a critical figure
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" Big Brother's picture is stamped on coins and telecast on the
unavoidable telescreens; it frequents Winston's life and fills him with disdain and interest
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Charrington - An old man who runs a used store in the prole region
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Charrington appears to share Winston's enthusiasm for the past
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In any case, Mr
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He is an individual from the Thought
Police
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Syme has
some expertise in dialect
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Winston trusts Syme is excessively keen, making it impossible to
stay in the Party's support
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He has a dull spouse and a gathering of suspicious, rude kids who are
individuals from the Junior Spies
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As indicated by the Party, Goldstein is the fabulous pioneer of the
Brotherhood
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Regardless, the Party portrays him as the most unsafe and deceptive
man in Oceania
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The peruser encounters the nightmarish world that Orwell imagines
through the eyes of the hero, Winston
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While Julia is untroubled and to some
degree egotistical, keen on revolting just for the joys to be picked up, Winston is to a
great degree contemplative and inquisitive, frantic to see how and why the Party
activities such total force in Oceania
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Aside from his attentive nature, Winston's principle traits are his disobedience and
his submission to the inevitable
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The exertion Winston puts into
his endeavor to accomplish opportunity and freedom at last underscores the Party's
overwhelming force
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One explanation behind Winston's insubordination, and inevitable ruin, is his feeling
of submission to the inevitable—his exceptional (however completely legitimized)
distrustfulness about the Party and his superseding conviction that the Party will in
the end get and rebuff him
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Imagining that he is vulnerable to avoid his fate, Winston permits
himself to go for broke, for example, trusting O'Brien and leasing the room above Mr
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Where it counts, he realizes that these dangers will expand his
odds of being gotten by the Party; he even concedes this to O'Brien while in jail
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Winston lives in a world in which genuine
confidence is an inconceivable possibility; without any genuine trust, he gives
himself false trust, completely mindful that he is doing as such
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While Winston is eager, fatalistic,
and worried about expansive scale social issues, Julia is exotic, businesslike, and for
the most part substance to live at the time and make the best of her life
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Winston basically sees their undertaking as
transitory; his fatalistic state of mind makes him not able to envision his association
with Julia enduring long
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She claims to have hosted illicit relationships with different
Gathering individuals, and has no goal of ending her pleasure looking for, or of being
gotten (her inclusion with Winston is the thing that prompts her catch)
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O’Brien
A standout amongst the most entrancing parts of 1984 is the way in which Orwell
covers an express depiction of a totalitarian world in a puzzling air
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Thus, a
large number of the Party's inward workings stay unexplained, as do its causes, and
the characters and inspirations of its pioneers
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O'Brien enlists Winston into the Brotherhood
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Amid the procedure of this discipline, and maybe as a
demonstration of mental torment, O'Brien concedes that he put on a show to be
associated with the Brotherhood just to trap Winston in a demonstration of open
traitorousness to the Party
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As opposed to creating as a character all through the novel, O'Brien really appears to

un-create: before the end of the book, the peruser knows far less about him than they
already had thought
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" This
answer could connote that O'Brien himself was once insubordinate, just to be
tormented into inactive acknowledgment of the Party
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So also,
one can't make sure whether the Brotherhood really exists, or on the off chance that it
is essentially a Party creation used to trap the backstabbing and give whatever
remains of the masses a typical foe
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Themes
The Dangers of Totalitarianism

1984 is a political novel composed with the motivation behind notice perusers in the West of
the risks of totalitarian government
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In 1949, the Cold
War had not yet heightened, numerous American educated people upheld socialism, and the
condition of tact amongst popularity based and comrade countries was exceedingly
equivocal
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Orwell, be that as it may, was profoundly irritated by the across the board
savageries and persecutions he saw in comrade nations, and appears to have been
especially worried by the part of innovation in empowering onerous governments to screen
and control their nationals
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The title of the novel was
intended to show to its perusers in 1949 that the story spoke to a genuine probability for the
not so distant future: if totalitarianism were not contradicted, the title recommended, some
variety of the world depicted in the novel could turn into a reality in just thirty-five years
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As the novel
advances, the tentatively defiant Winston Smith embarks to challenge the breaking points of
the Party's energy, just to find that its capacity to control and oppress its subjects
overshadows even his most neurotic originations of its span
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These include:
Psychological Manipulation
The Party floods its subjects with mental boosts intended to overpower the brain's ability for
autonomous thought
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The telescreens additionally
screen conduct—all over the place they go, subjects are consistently reminded, particularly
by method for the ubiquitous signs perusing "the government IS WATCHING YOU," that the
powers are investigating them
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The Party likewise constrains people to stifle their sexual longings, regarding sex as simply a
procreative obligation whose end is the formation of new Party individuals
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A significant number of
these foes host been imagined by the Gathering explicitly for this reason
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The Party continually looks for any indication of traitorousness, to the point that, as
Winston watches, even a small facial jerk could prompt a capture
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The Party constrains its individuals to
experience mass morning practices called the Physical Jerks, and afterward to work long,
tiring days at government organizations, keeping individuals in a general condition of fatigue
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In the wake of being subjected to weeks of this extraordinary treatment,
Winston himself arrives at the conclusion that nothing is more capable than physical
agony—no passionate unwaveringness or good conviction can conquer it
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Control of Information and History

The Party controls each wellspring of data, overseeing and changing the substance of all
daily papers and histories for its own finishes
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Subsequently, recollections get to be
fluffy and untrustworthy, and residents turn out to be flawlessly ready to trust whatever the
Party lets them know
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What's
more, in controlling the past, the Party can legitimize the majority of its activities in the
present
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Also, the Party utilizes muddled components (1984 was composed in
the period before PCs) to apply vast scale control on monetary generation and wellsprings of
data, and fearsome hardware to exact torment upon those it considers foes
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Language as Mind Control

One of Orwell's most essential messages in 1984 is that dialect is of focal significance to
human thought since it structures and constrains the thoughts that people are equipped for
detailing and communicating
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This thought shows itself in the
dialect of Newspeak, which the Party has acquainted with supplant English
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Strangely, a large number of Orwell's thoughts regarding dialect as a controlling power have
been adjusted by scholars and faultfinders looking to manage the legacy of imperialism
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Postcolonial journalists regularly dissect or review the harm done to nearby
populaces by the loss of dialect and the specialist loss of society and chronicled association
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Basically, doublethink is the capacity to hold two conflicting
thoughts in one's psyche in the meantime
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At the Hate Week rally, for occasion, the Party moves its conciliatory
steadfastness, so the country it has been at war with all of a sudden turns into its associate,
and its previous partner turns into its new foe
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Similarly, individuals can acknowledge the Party services' names,
however they repudiate their capacities: the Ministry of Plenty supervises monetary
deficiencies, the Ministry of Peace takes up arms, the Ministry of Truth behaviors publicity
and verifiable revisionism, and the Ministry of Love is the focal point of the Party's operations
of torment and discipline
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The London that Winston Smith calls
home is a decrepit, rundown city in which structures are disintegrating, comforts, for
example, lifts never work, and necessities, for example, power and pipes are amazingly
temperamental
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One of the topics of 1984, propelled by the historical backdrop of twentieth-century
socialism, is that totalitarian administrations are violently viable at improving their own
energy and pitiably uncouth at accommodating their nationals
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Symbols
Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or
concepts
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the government is the
substance of the Party
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Regardless, the substance of Big Brother symbolizes the Party in its open indication; he is a
consolation to the vast majority (the glow of his name recommends his capacity to ensure),
yet he is likewise an open risk (one can't get away from his look)
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Winston supposes he recollects that Big Brother
rose around 1960, however the Party's legitimate records date Big Brother's presence back
to 1930, preceding Winston was even conceived
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Clements Church
By intentionally debilitating individuals' recollections and flooding their psyches with
promulgation, the Party can supplant people's recollections with its own variant of reality
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Winston dubiously comprehends this
rule
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Winston purchases a paperweight in an antique store in the
prole region that comes to symbolize his endeavor to reconnect with the past
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The old picture of St
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Charrington's shop is another representation of the lost past
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The Place Where There Is No Darkness
All through the novel Winston envisions meeting O'Brien in "the spot where there is no
dimness
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In the end, Winston meets O'Brien in the spot where there is no
murkiness; rather than being the heaven Winston envisioned, it is only a jail cell in which the
light is never killed
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The Telescreens
The ubiquitous telescreens are the book's most unmistakable image of the Party's steady
observing of its subjects
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The Red-Armed Prole Woman
The red-outfitted prole lady whom Winston hears singing through the window speaks to
Winston's one authentic trust in the long haul future: the likelihood that the proles will
inevitably come to perceive their situation and revolutionary against the Party
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