Essay On The Proles In George Orwell's '1984'

While Winston strongly believes that the proles are the last hope for the prosperity of Oceania and that they will, one day, wake up and revolt, O’Brien argues that they will never rebel against the government because they are content with their daily life. I, however, side with O’Brien. Although, the proles are the only hope, as Winston states, and have the strength in numbers, O’Brien is right when he claims that the proles “are helpless, like the animals. Humanity is the party. The others are outside--irrelevant” (Orwell 269). When O’Brien says this, it conveys to the audience how little the percentage of the proles that are literate and how low their education skills are. The proles are not involved with the government what so ever, they hold no power. The idea of
Additionality, both the social classes are arranged by power. In today’s society, money is power; the most wealthiest families hold the most power. As well in the book, the social classes are divided by how much power a family possesses. However, the most relevant resemblance to the proles is that today, we also are distracted by the government. In “1984,” it’s lottery tickets and liquor, now it’s social media. In the short article, “4 Predictions From Orwell’s '1984' That Are Coming True Today”, by Alasdair Denvil, it declares that the current trending topics on google are “Kim Kardashian, Man of Steel, Miss USA, and Italy's win over Mexico in the FIFA Confederations Cup” (Denvil 1). This asserts how extraneous topics like a celebrities that are on clearly scripted reality television shows are the most popular issues on some people’s minds. When today’s society should be worrying about today’s political events and what is happening over the world. The distraction of social media is a correlation of the distraction of lottery tickets with the proles; today’s society relates to the proletariat community in numerous