Tuesday, 29 August 2017

I'm writing an essay on the book 1984 by George Orwell, and I'm writing from the critical lens marxism, the differences in social classes. I need help...

We have
limited access to any "groups" in .  We only have 's limited perspective.  He doesn't
even know much about his own class.  So, much of your paper will be inferential.  We only know
what Winston knows: we can't trust(inner party) or(outer party)--both of which are probably
double-agents.

Winston is fascinated with the Proles; he sees them as the key
to revolution.  Look at Winston's journal entry for his "stream-of-conscious" Marxist
criticism on the party vs. the proles:

April 4th, 1984.
Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being
bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by
shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him
wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters
gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly
as though the holes had let in the water,



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