Today, I am going to present to you a detailed analysis of part 1, chapter 8. As you may notice, proles are rarely kept under surveillance because of their extreme stupidity. This chapter sets place in the proletarian district, to the north-east of the Saint-Pancras station, which is now in ruins. This place is the designed place for proles to live, where the urban decay is even worse. During his trip there, Winston will visit two places: Mr.Charrington’s shop and the Pub, before heading back to the Victory mansion.
For this chapter, Orwell chose to shape the atmosphere into a nostalgic, yet unfamiliar place. The aroma of real coffee reminded Winston of his lost childhood, where he still tries to put pieces of his fragmented memory together. Here you have a list of the mood you can find. There are divided into three parts with represents, the district, Mr.Charrington’s shop and Winston’s apartment.
There are some quite important concepts included in this chapter. First is the constant occupation. The Inner Party will try always to snatch away all the free time from the Outer Party members by appointing them to a variety of activities. To sum up, one must never be alone except in bed, leaving to them little or no time at all to think. The term ownlife refers to the solitude and independent of one, but think about it. Ownlife. To decide your own fate and make your life belong to you. Of course, the Party would never allow such kind of individualism.
Second is lottery. This game, destined to proles, gives to most of them a motivation to live. In fact, the lottery is tricked and entirely under the command of the Party. They attribute the winning sums to an inexistent person. Due to the fact that the proles can’t communicate with other parts of Oceania, there is no possible verification of the true existence of the winners. If the Party didn’t do this, the winners would become a huge threat to them. A huge threat called capitalist.
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