In 1984 The Party controls the world of Oceania through whatever ever means necessary, it will even go to the full extent of asserting force over another through lies, deception, propaganda and violence. These are just all instruments used by the party in obtaining their only source of drive for quest, power over another human being which diminishes any hope for the people of this world.
For there to be control of a society or over people there must be hope. Unlike Oceania who controls its millions of citizens, where it seeks power by asserting force over another individual, power is inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is tearing human minds to pieces, and then putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. “In the face of pain there are no heroes.” The only hope which any of the citizens think they have is through the Brotherhood, there is no permanent state and hope is not something which is momentary, hope has to be made, the proles have to rise up and speak out because everyday, everyday their chance for hope is ever getting destroyed by the Newspeak, the language of Ingsoc. There will be no hope through the Brotherhood as it is just an invention, a tool used by the party to help give a sense of hope to its people and thus able to control them. Nothing holds the Brotherhood together except the idea that it is indestructible. It is clear that there will soon be no hope left for the people of Oceania, but what is hope? Is it optimism or anticipation? It is in fact the belief that one’s desire may be attained. There is nothing to be attained for these people. The party claimed to have liberated the proles from bondage. How could the party liberate the proles from oppression when there is nothing because the party has deliberately destroyed all such essentials, the party is full lies and deceit. The materials which the population need are being consumed by a war which doesn’t even exist, only just for the creations of mindless machines that are used for the war effort then are destroyed by their mindless creators so that the peoples desire cannot be attained but the proles are ignorant of this and therefore are unaware, ignorance is sure bliss but also strength in 1984.
“Never again will you be capable of love, friendship, or joy of living, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollowed. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” If this is the aim of the party, to drain a person of all experiences which defines us. If there was to be any hope in the overthrow of the party, it lay in the proles not the Inner or Outer party but the proles but it could be years, hundreds even before they were to rise up but the proles must understand first. “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” The proles cannot be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect to begin with. Even members of the Thought Police move among the proles, spreading false rumors and marking down and eliminating the few individuals that ever posed a threat. It would be very difficult for the proles even to begin a new revolution, there is no such word now to even describe freedom and independence for the individual. If there was a revolution would Big Brother ever fall, Big Brother is an embodiment of The Party and The Party is Big Brother, there is no such single person, a single leader like Big Brother, he is just an a illusion, Big Brother is just a disguise, no one has actually seen him. The party chooses to exhibit itself to the world with him, Big Brother functions are to act as a focusing point for love, fear and revenge, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization.
The proles in the near future will have no chance of having any of the emotions which define humans, love, hate and joy and many more, but they will not be able to share these towards another fellow human but only towards Big Brother, where they will only show their love towards him and hatred towards their enemies, they will only have laughter and joy when their enemies are defeated.
The proles will eventually have no hope, but they have something which neither the Inner nor the outer party have, the proles are human beings, they are not monsters. For there to be any hope for 1984 it alone, lies in the hands of the proles, even if all their emotions were to be whipped to existence, they will learn about the true identity of their selves, Big Brother and the Party, they will destroy it and a new revolution will come, it will wipe out all of which the party was against, it will build a new society which was so badly taken away from them, until then the future lays in the hands of the proles.
“Fate it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”