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1984 is an iconic and influential novel about the future but it relates surprisingly to the past. The oppression of the proles in 1984 is similar to the oppression of blacks during the civil war period because the class system and the attitudes of the oppressed but they are different because the way the people were oppressed. The oppression of the proles in 1984 is similar to the oppression of blacks during the civil war period because the proles and blacks were separated by birth into a lower class. As slaves were separated and oppressed because they were born black, the proles were oppressed because they were born proles. In this quote form 1984 you can see the oppression and separation of the proles from the other higher classes and how
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