1984: Post 8

Emmanuel Goldstein's book that Winston received from O'Brien has all sorts of different information about the party's secrets and theories on how the party got to be the way it is. Winston is drawn to this book every chance he gets. When he and Julia are at the room in Mr. Charington's shop, Winston reads the book in order to learn more and to find answers to questions he never knew about. Goldstein's book talks about how there have always been three classes of people in any society. The high, middle, and lower classes of people are always around, despite the fact that in different societies, these three classes are treated differently. In this society the lower class is the proles. According to Goldstein's book the lower class is the class that will break down the ruling party. This gives Winston great hope that the proles will band together and overrun the party freeing everyone from their terrible controlling ways.