1984: 10

"But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer"(Orwell 202).


As Winston reads the book explaining how the world really works, it is truly eerie how close some of the book's ideals are to our own world. No matter how the world has progressed throughout history, we really have not come any closer to equality. No matter what form of government has been employed, we have not come any closer to equality. Now, in Winston's world, they are farther than ever from obtaining equality, they have a rigid classes that allow for no movement. People cannot move up, they cannot move down. They must live, day in and day out the exact same way. The Proles will be Proles, the Inner Party will be the Inner Party. Nothing equal, nothing changing. But is true equality really the goal? Or just equal opportunity? In our world, equal opportunity to move up is what we have found to work, but would that work in Oceania, or when given the freedoms we have in our world, will another Party-like regime take over in the ensuing chaos?