Winston naively believes that the organization of the proles is the only way that society will be emancipated from the Party.
Winston's repressed sexuality, which causes him to respond and react in various ways and appears to be a significant force in his rebellion against the Party, is emerging as a motif in the novel. Because Winston still has some memory of a time before the Party, he is "corrupt" in that he still has an active sex drive he longs for the type of relationship no longer possible in his society. Love and sex are conditioned out of people at an early age, and only loyalty to the party is intended to remain. The Party controls even the most intimate of feelings and acts between human beings. He finishes this diary entry with the line "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. Winston muses a bit on the Party's control over thought and realizes that he is writing the diary for O'Brien, the only person he believes to be on is side. Winston threw the photograph into the memory hole for fear that this bit of real history and his effort to remember history as it actually happened would betray him as a thought-criminal. At one time, a photograph of these men had come across Winston's desk, proving that they were once in league with the Party and that, at the time of their supposed treason, they were at a Party function - proof that the men were forced to confess to false crimes.
Winston also recalls a time in which he was sitting in a café next to three men who were later arrested and executed as enemies of the party. Due to their majority, Winston is sure that, if the proles would only become conscious of the fact that they could improve their situation, they could overturn the Party. In Chapter 7, Winston writes of his hope that the proles, the working class, will rebel and change society. They separated because Winston could not stand Katharine's orthodoxy to the Party or her coldness toward him. Winston also thinks about his wife, Katharine, who has been out of his life for nearly eleven years. This episode with the repulsive, objectionable prole prostitute exacerbates his desire for a pleasant sexual experience. In Chapter 6, Winston Smith confesses in his diary about a visit to an aging prostitute.
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