The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

Party has not interest in governing the Proletaries. The party considers the 
proletarians as the animals; it said that "Proles and animal are free". 
In all questions of morals they were allowed to follow their ancestral code. 
The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. Promiscuity 
went unpunished; divorce was permitted. For that matter, even religious 
worship would have been permitted. For that the proles had shown any sign 
of needing or wanting it. They were beneath suspicion. As the Party slogan 
put it: ―Proles and animal are free‖ (Orwell, 1961:72). 
The crime that occurred in the vicinity of the Proletary is left 
unceremoniously of the Party, as long as it happened in the proletary's residence, 
it will not harm the Party. 
One fell on a crowded film theatre in Stepney, burying several hundred 
victims among the ruins. The whole population of the neighbourhood turned 
out for a long, trailing funeral which went on for hours and was in effect an 
indignation meeting. Another bomb fell on a piece of waste ground which 
was used as a playground, and several dozen children were blown to 
pieces(Orwell, 1961:149). 

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There is only one thing that Party provided for the Proletarians. It is the 
Lottery, Lottery with the lure of high prizes. It is provided for the Party's own 
sake, the proletariat is preoccupied with Lottery so that they cannot think critically 
about the situation in Oceania. 
.... The running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of 
Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the Party was aware) that the 
prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the 
winners of the prizes being nonexistent persons. In the absence of any real 
intercommunication between one part of Oceania and another, this was not 
difficult (Orwell, 1961:86). 
The Lottery, with its weekly payout of enormous prizes, was the one public 
event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there 
were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not 
the one reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their 
anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, 
even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate 
calculations and staggering feats of memory (Orwell, 1961:85). 
The Proletarians' spirit of the Lottery is very high, with the intention of 
fulfilling the necessities of life; they are willing to spend money. Whereas the 
Party workers know clearly that the promised gift does not really exist. The truth 
is that the rewards given to the proletary are in small quantities. 
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on 
people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most 
flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity 
of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in 
public events to notice what happening (Orwell, 1961:156). 
Goldstein has already mentioned in his book on the Party's situation in 
Oceania that the Party forbade.It is circulated of the Party workers at the 
beginning of the twentieth century. 

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By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner