Top Highlights

• The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.
• ‘If there is hope,’ wrote Winston, ‘it lies in the proles.’
• But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire.
• Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
• But simultaneously, true to the Principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.