Summary
When Julia and Winston awaken to a cold room, it is 20:30. Winston looks from the window at the ever-present singing prole hanging the laundry below. Winston admires the sturdy peasant; in fact, to him she is beautiful. He thinks of all the people held apart by lies and hatred, yet possessing the same hopes and potential to overturn the world.
Winston suddenly feels convinced that he knows what Goldstein had written as his final message, that hope lies with the proles. Equality translates into sanity.
Winston reminds Julia of the thrush that...
Source: MAXnotes to 1984, ©2000 Research and Education Association, Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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