Winston had hope in them as they had not become and hardened and deadened inside like the Party members had. "They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort." Nevertheless, they had lost their conscious mental existence. The proles have individual lives, they have families and friends and preferences which are not held in strict check by the Party, and yet they are kept stupid and useless involving themselves in petty quarrels over saucepans and irrelevant, frivolous concerns. Winston focuses his attentions upon the large prole woman who hangs out washing in the courtyard under his window over the shop; he remarks: "the woman down there had no mind, she had only strong arms, a warm heart and a fertile belly." I believe Orwell regards individualism as a conscious sense, a reality which you believe in wholly and are possibly willing to die for - it is this that the proles do not have, that they are ignorant of and therefore cannot possess. As observed by Winston: "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become
Winston had hope in them as they had not become and hardened and deadened inside like the Party members had. "They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort." Nevertheless, they had lost their conscious mental existence. The proles have individual lives, they have families and friends and preferences which are not held in strict check by the Party, and yet they are kept stupid and useless involving themselves in petty quarrels over saucepans and irrelevant, frivolous concerns. Winston focuses his attentions upon the large prole woman who hangs out washing in the courtyard under his window over the shop; he remarks: "the woman down there had no mind, she had only strong arms, a warm heart and a fertile belly." I believe Orwell regards individualism as a conscious sense, a reality which you believe in wholly and are possibly willing to die for - it is this that the proles do not have, that they are ignorant of and therefore cannot possess. As observed by Winston: "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become