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For Example, when O’Brien is talking with Winston, “The Party is only interested in power”. The Party only wants to be in charge of Oceania. They do not care about how the people act as long as they respect the party. The Party only needs the people of Oceania to not get in the way of their power basically. The Party spends all of this time to make sure their power isn’t threatened and when it is the threat is tortured until they realize that it is not worth it to fight anymore. In addition, when Winston tries to figure out a way to get the proles to overthrow The Party, “Until they become conscious they will never rebel. Until they have rebelled they will never become conscious.”. Winston finds himself stuck in the catch 22 the party has created. The proles cannot realize what there is besides The Party until they overthrow them because they won’t have The Party convincing them everything is okay. But the proles will never rebel against The Party until they realize what is out there. It is at this point when Winston starts to realize The Party can’t lose. They have accumulated so much power over everyone that there is no knowledge of anything else but they don’t think they want anything else. These people have been brainwashed into believing what The Party tells them to believe and The Party has too much control to lose all of it. If the Party were to fail the entire society will collapse. They have been interested in power for so long that they have integrated themselves into everything and it will all crash without them. Winston discovers The Party is interested only in power not the people and they have too much power to