person to guide them like Goldstein. When enough of them become aware to make a change, then as a group can rebel. And finally afterwards they will they see the real world as it truly is. “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious” (Orwell 70). This is true for the North Koreans. In the North Korean detention camps, people were born in to captivity and werent aware of the outside world. It took outsiders to smuggle in books, like The Count of Monte Cristo, for them to even be aware of the word "escape". If it wasn't for the book and introducing the new idea of escape, they life would still remain the same. Captive without even knowing it. Controlled with no hope for change.
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The proles will never become conscious or aware of the situation because they are controlled by the thought police, hunger, propaganda, technology and just hard living in general, they need a
person to guide them like Goldstein. When enough of them become aware to make a change, then as a group can rebel. And finally afterwards they will they see the real world as it truly is that their life is no longer their own, but Big Brother's. “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious” (Orwell 70). This is true for the North Koreans. In the North Korean detention camps, people were born in to captivity and weren't aware of the outside world. It took outsiders to smuggle in books, like The Count of Monte Cristo, for them to even be aware of the word "escape". If it wasn't for the book and introducing the new idea of escape, their life would still remain the same. Captive without even knowing it. Controlled with no hope for change.
it's a perfect description of the usa today. it means the people as a whole cannot see the truth of their situation: that they are being oppressed by their own government. they only see their own situation as a personal plight and not of something bigger, and are are not cognizant of the fact that they are opressed at all, and therefore they are not conscious. they will only become conscious of themselves as a whole once they have rebelled because somebody will have to lead them to rebellion. they won't do it as a whole. once they have rebelled and gained their freedom from their opressors, only then will they become conscious of how oppressed they truly were.
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