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1984 George Orwell

 

Power is tearing human minds to pieces, and then putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. "In the face of pain there are no heroes." The only hope which any of the citizens think they have is through the Brotherhood, there is no permanent state and hope is not something which is momentary, hope has to be made, the proles have to rise up and speak out because everyday, everyday their chance for hope is ever getting destroyed by the Newspeak, the language of Ingsoc. There will be no hope through the Brotherhood as it is just an invention, a tool used by the party to help give a sense of hope to its people and thus able to control them. Nothing holds the Brotherhood together except the idea that it is indestructible. It is clear that there will soon be no hope left for the people of Oceania, but what is hope? Is it optimism or anticipation? It is in fact the belief that one's desire may be attained. There is nothing to be attained for these people. The party claimed to have liberated the proles from bondage. How could the party liberate the proles from oppression when there is nothing because the party has deliberately destroyed all such essentials, the party is full lies and deceit. The materials which the population need are being consumed by a war which doesn't even exist, only just for the creations of mindless machines that are used for the war effort then are destroyed by their mindless creators so that the peoples desire cannot be attained but the proles are ignorant of this and therefore are unaware, ignorance is sure bliss but also strength in 1984. .
             "Never again will you be capable of love, friendship, or joy of living, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollowed. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves." If this is the aim of the party, to drain a person of all experiences which defines us. If there was to be any hope in the overthrow of the party, it lay in the proles not the Inner or Outer party but the proles but it could be years, hundreds even before they were to rise up but the proles must understand first.


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