It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep, loud 'Oh-o-o-o-oh!' that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell. He remembered how once he had been walking down a crowded street when a tremendous shout of hundreds of voices women's voices - had burst from a side-street a little way ahead. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-! If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. The Party could not be overthrown from within. If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.
Paperback (Portuguese) (June 28th, 2021): $30.If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions-a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching.Ī startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. It was their final, most essential command.” “ The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever. Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future.
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