The three classes

In Part 2, Julia and Winston received "the book" from The Brotherhood. Chapter 1, "Ignorance is Strength," analyzes this party slogan. Choose one part of the analysis (pp. 201 - 217) and see if you can apply it to a current event or issue. 

"There are three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low." This paragraph goes on to describe how the High class is basically the 1% in today's society, commanding the majority of the world's wealth. The middle get by, having maybe just the slightest bit of money to spend on leisure. The low are those living below the poverty line, those that cannot sufficiently provide for themselves or their families. This book in 1984 has effectively described the economic state of most of the first world countries in the modern world. It shows how the three classes in the world never really change, even in an author's envisioning of a dystopian future. Some things never change.