1984 Paragraph

Control by of limit education

People become who they are expected to be

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious” 

“…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” 

“…they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern.”

“…being without general ideas, they could only focus on petty grievances” 

“The larger evils invariably escaped their notice”

“Proles and animals are free” 

“I understand HOW: I don’t understand WHY” 

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears” 

If the ‘party’ is teaching you all that you know, you would never know that you are not being treated fairly, nor that you have any power to change that. 

Colon used for proportion between two numbers, separate hours from minutes, or to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation. But not actually any of the above mentioned

Logical, mathematical connotations. 

Capital letters for ‘how’ and ‘why’ give emphasis. 


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