The Party's Foothold

1984 is everything that democracy stands for. The appalling and brutal foothold “The Party” has on the citizens of “Oceania” or what was London. This domineering group of oppressors has split their nation into three groups. The “Inner Party” is at the top of the chain and they receive all the luxuries and pleasures that Oceania has to offer, then come “Party Members”, the middle class of this negative utopia. This class does all the administrative work and they are the backbone of Oceania, and the last and certainly the least comes the “Proles”. The Proles are the lowest of the low, in this society they are at the same level as animals as in page 72 says “Proles and animals are free” but ironically, they are the only class that is given any real freedom. The Proles inhabit the deteriorating slums of Oceania but they avoid the constant oppression because “The Party” rarely puts up cameras or have any police patrol the area. Although “The Party” usually ignores the Proles, the have complete control of everything else, literally, from the time the people go to sleep, to the time they wake up, to whom you marry, and they have the last say when it comes to sex. “The Party” has taken such extensive measures to control everyone that they have banned sex, “The Party” has created a branch of young adults who are celibate but who force celibacy on all others, this branch is called “The Junior Anti-Sex League”. This league was created to bar everyone from sex because in the eyes of “The Party” sex is only meant for creating more Party members, besides that sex has no other use. With such extreme tactics, “The Party” has managed to become absolute, and to “The Party” there is no such thing as freedom.