In 1949, a well known English journalist and essayist published a novel with intense underlying political and social messages that would have an effect on the community at large that persists to the modern day. Eric Arthur Blair, best known under his pen name as George Orwell, wrote the dystopian novel called 1984 to establish the link between totalitarianism and tyranny but also to scrutinize many aspects of the class divisions in the post-war English society. In the book 1984 there are three main social classes: The Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the proletarians, commonly referred to as proles. Throughout the book, Orwell’s representation and marginalization of this lowest class, the proles, shows how they are being ignored and silenced