1984 Blog 8

Goldstein says that in a society, no matter where, there is always a high, middle, and low. The high have all the power and receive the best goods of the society. The goal of the middle is to switch places with the high. This means that they strive to fight for the civil rights of equality of the lower, but once they are successful they drop the cause of the lower. Throughout time, the lower has remained the constant fighter for freedom and equality. They have been the stems of the civil rights movement, but though they earn some rights, they never move up. They usually remain the same. This could alter the way Winston thinks about the proles. He has put all of his faith in the proles, but if Goldstein is correct, then the proles will just remain the proles. There is no hope within them. This history kind of makes sense to me, but not totally. I do believe that throughout history there have been definite classes of a high, middle, and lower. And I think that it will always be that way because there is always someone less fortunate than you, it’s just the way the world works as sad as it is. But I don’t think that the low have always remained at the low. I think they have actually accomplished a lot.