All 12 Uses of
proletariat
in
1984 by Orwell
- And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.†
p. 43..3
- There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally.†
p. 43..3
- There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like Spanking Stories or One Night in a Girls' School, to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal.†
p. 130..8
- She must have slipped into some shop in the proletarian quarters and bought herself a complete set of make-up materials.†
p. 142..4
- Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory and live out their lives undetected in a back-street.†
p. 152..0
- Proletarians, in practice, are not allowed to graduate into the Party.†
p. 209..5
- It does not aim at transmitting power to its own children, as such; and if there were no other way of keeping the ablest people at the top, it would be perfectly prepared to recruit an entire new generation from the ranks of the proletariat.†
p. 209..8
- From the proletarians nothing is to be feared.†
p. 210..4 *
- The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.†
p. 212..9
- The secret accumulation of knowledge — a gradual spread of enlightenment — ultimately a proletarian rebellion — the overthrow of the Party.†
p. 261..8
- The proletarians will never revolt, not in a thousand years or a million.†
p. 261..9
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- Or perhaps you have returned to your old idea that the proletarians or the slaves will arise and overthrow us.
p. 269..7 *proletarians = workers
Definitions:
- (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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(proletariat) a social class consisting of those who must work for wages to support themselves