Analyze the interactions between Winston and the old man in the pub, Syme, and Mr. Charrington. How do Winston's interactions with these individuals...

's hope
has been to find some key to the past through the proles. The proles are those least affected by
the Revolution and the domination by the Party of the populace, if only because the Party
considers them "sub-human." This fact is supremely ironic because the Party, just like
the actual Communists of 's time, claimed that they had created a "worker's state," a
society in which everyone was equal or would become so once the transitional period from
capitalism to socialism had been completed.

Winston is frustrated because
the old man he speaks to cannot give him any clear information about the way life was in the
past. The man apparently has a mild form of dementia and can only remember little scraps of
details which do not provide the proof Winston desires that things were better for the average
person before the Revolution took place. If anything, the encounter makes his wish to rebel even
stronger, to find some other means of confirming his own assumption that,...