Winston truly believes that the power of successfully rebelling and overthrowing the government lies within the poverty-stricken, yet copious population of the proles. Winston endlessly expresses his admiration for the way they can unite over a topic of interest. He has faith in the proles for many reasons. First, they can certainly cause a ruckus. At one point in the book, Winston remembers a time he thought they started a riot, but that wasn’t the case, “And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats.”(pg 70). That so called cry came from women fighting over pots. Pots! Winston surely thought if they quarreled like that over low-end pots, then how would they join together
