The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

4.3.7 The Prole 
The prole is the only characters who never taste the prisoner cell in the 
Ministry of Love. The injustice suffered by prole is freed to live by the Party like 
animals. 
....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. In 
reality very little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to know 
much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities 
were without importance (Orwell, 1961:71). 
The free life given by the Party does not mean completely free, but Party 
control is still working on the prole. It is very easy for the Party to control the 
prole. 
To keep them in control was not difficult. A few of the Thought Police 
moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and 
eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming 
dangerous; but not attempt was made to indoctrinate them with the 
ideology of the Party (Orwell, 1961:71). 
The Party's ingenuity in sabotaging the situation among the prole makes the 
prole bowed and indifferent to the state of the oppressed. The Party does not 
prepare the education for the people and continue to employ them on a scale at 

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any given time. Thus, the thought of the prole will not advance so by the prole it 
is impossible to happen. 
It was desirable that the proles should have strong political feeling. All that 
was required of them was primitive patriotism which could be appealed to 
whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or 
shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they 
sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without 
general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The 
larger evils invariably escaped their notice (Orwell, 1961:71). 
In addition to being designed for work, the prole is also useful in terms of 
patriotism towards the state. The prole will takes part when war information is 
circulating in Oceania. 
The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of 
their periodical prenzies of the patriotism. As though to harmonize with the 
general mood,...( Orwell, 1961:149). 
The part included here is nothing but the spirit of the proletarians' own 
demonstrations. The hatred of the proletarians against Goldstein, Eurasia or 
Eastasia is real when seen from the demonstrations by them. 
There were further angry demonstration, Goldstein was burned in effigy, 
hundreds of copies of the poster of the Eurasian soldier were torn down and 
added to the flame, and a number of shops were looted in the turmoil; then a 
rumour flew round that spies were directing the rocket bombs by means of 
wireless waves, and an old couple who were suspected of being of foreign 
extraction had their house set on fire and perished of suffocation (Orwell, 
1961:149). 
As long as Oceania still in controlled by the Party then there is no future for 
the proletes. Not those who do not want to fight, but the circumstances that keep 
them subject and work according to the Party's wishes. 

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The proletarians will never revolt, not in a thousand years or a million. They 
cannot. I do not have to tell you the reason; you know it already. If you have 
ever cherished any dreams of violent insurrection, you must abandon them. 
There is no way in which the Party can be overthrown. The rule of the Party 
is forever. Make that the starting point of your thoughts‖ (Orwell, 1961: 
261-262).