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"Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious"(Orwell 70).

Winston writes this line in his journal. It become apparent that he fully understands how the people must overcome mental blocks in order to rebel. They must become conscious of better times and conditions and a reason to fight in order to rebel. Yet in order to grasp in its entirety the rebellion and in order to see that there would be a reason to ever rebel, the people must become conscious of another time and place when things where better. Both of these scenarios are much the same, and both are necessary if anything is to be done about Big Brother. The fact that neither of these have been realized, allows Big Brother and The Party to keep the population under the fist of oppression.