1984 - CHAPTER 7 & 8

CHAPTER 7:
"Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word" (69).
- These actions that should be part of anyones lives is considered signs of rebellion. They have no rights at all.

"Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals" (71).
- They're to be treated as senseless animals despite the fact that they're actually smart enough to steer away from this society.
- When Winston was talking to Syme, Syme mentioned that nobody in the future would be able to understand their conversation & Winston thought, "except the proles".
- However, the proles are ostracized & they mean nothing.
"The great majority of proles did not have telescreens in their homes" (71).
- Almost as if these people don't exist.

"Day and night the telescreen bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations - that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated than the people of 50 years ago" (74).
- The Party is extremely successful to be able to just brainwash people like such because clearly their society is nothing like that.
"It might very well be that literally every word in the history books ... was pure fantasy" (74).

"Today, probably, he would have kept that photograph ... Was the Party's hold upon the past less strong, he wondered, because a piece of evidence which existed no longer had once existed?" (79).
- Winston has more power than he thinks if he possessed evidence from the past. His observation might be correct and the Party may lose control over altering the past; [possible foreshadowing].

CHAPTER 8

"The proles were nearly always right when they gave you a warning of this kind" (84).
- The Party makes stupid decisions - the proles can be utilized as their "lookout".
"the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened" (84).
- A bomb just hit & these people don't even care. Almost as if they just checked out of life.
- The Party's idea of erasing the past obviously is spreading everywhere.

On Pg. 89, Winston is opening up about what he knows about the past & what the Party wants everyone to believe. He is sharing all the thoughts that would get him in trouble. Sounds like the proles' don't really have to worry as much what their facial expressions look like considering the fact that they don't have many telescreens.

"The few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another" (93).
- Again, we see how successful the Party is in making history disappear. The few old people in the society can't even remember what life was like previously which frustrates Winston.

"And yet the instant that he allowed his thoughts to wander, his feet had brought him back here of their own accord" (93).
- His thoughts will really get him in a lot of trouble. Every time he has a thought going against the party, it seems as if he may get punished. So he really needs to be careful.

"The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness" (95).
- Though it means nothing to the rest of society, Winston takes pride in buying it. Almost as if he's the only one who refuses to believe that the past is based only on what the Party wants people to believe.
"Anything old, and for that matter anything beautiful, was always vaguely suspect" (96).

To be honest, its not surprising that Winston has been spied on this whole time.