Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Emmanuel Goldstein's Book

I agree with the theory, and I think that the proles really won't ever wake up from their stupor. This is sad because they are the only ones that Winston thinks can overthrow the party if they fought over things that were more important. Of course this won't happen because they really don't seem to care. They just don't look at the inner party the way Winston and Julia do. The proles don't even know what is going on, if a bomb goes off they assume it's an enemy of the party, when it could be the party attacking them to keep them in fear and hating one thing so that they don't have time to even question the inner party. Of course the outer party, cannot ban together and go against the inner party. It is hard to determine whether the proles are lower class, because the outer party could also be considered lower class, since they hardly live better than the proles. If you cannot even determine who is in what class, whether it is higher or lower, then you cannot ban together and overthrow anything. The party cannot be changed by anyone, it is unstoppable, this is the main that Goldstein's book gives us. I agree with Goldstein on this theory, and yes it would take more than just the proles to overthrow Big Brother and the inner party, but at the same time that in itself is hard to achieve. This entire society is not meant to be long-term, but will eventually be destroyed as long as there are people like Winston and Julia rebelling in any way they can.

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