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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

bullets than a sheet of paper. The terrible thing<br />

that the Party had done was to persuade you that<br />

mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no<br />

account, while at the same time robbing you of<br />

all power over the material world. When once<br />

you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or<br />

did not feel, what you did or refrained from<br />

doing, made literally no difference.<br />

Whatever happened you vanished, and neither<br />

you nor your actions were ever heard of again.<br />

You were lifted clean out of the stream of<br />

history. And yet to the people of only two<br />

generations ago this would not have seemed allimportant,<br />

because they were not attempting to<br />

alter history. They were governed by private<br />

loyalties which they did not question. What<br />

mattered were individual relationships, and a<br />

completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a<br />

word spoken to a dying man, could have value in<br />

itself. The proles, it suddenly occurred to him,<br />

had remained in this condition. They were not<br />

loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were<br />

loyal to one another. For the first time in his life<br />

he did not despise the proles or think of them<br />

merely as an inert force which would one day<br />

spring to life and regenerate the world. The<br />

proles had stayed human. They had not become<br />

hardened inside. They had held on to the<br />

primitive emotions which he himself had to relearn<br />

by conscious effort. And in thinking this he<br />

remembered, without apparent relevance, how a<br />

few weeks ago he had seen a severed hand lying<br />

on the pavement and had kicked it into the gutter<br />

as though it had been a cabbage-stalk.<br />

'The proles are human beings,' he said aloud. 'We<br />

are not human.'<br />

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protegido al niño con sus brazos, con lo cual podía<br />

salvarlo de las balas con la misma eficacia que si lo<br />

hubiera cubierto con un papel. Lo terrible era que el<br />

Partido había persuadido a la gente de que los<br />

simples impulsos y sentimientos de nada servían.<br />

Cuando se estaba bajo las garras del Partido, nada<br />

importaba lo que se sintiera o se dejara de sentir, lo<br />

que se hiciera o se dejara de hacer.<br />

Cuanto le sucedía a uno se desvanecía y ni usted ni<br />

sus acciones volvían a figurar para nada. Le<br />

apartaban a usted, con toda limpieza, del curso de la<br />

historia. Sin embargo, hacía sólo dos generaciones,<br />

se dejaban gobernar por sentimientos privados que<br />

nadie ponía en duda. Lo que importaba eran las<br />

relaciones humanas, y un gesto completamente<br />

inútil, un abrazo, una lágrima, una palabra cariñosa<br />

dirigida a un moribundo, poseían un valor en sí. De<br />

pronto pensó Winston que los proles seguían con sus<br />

sentimientos y emociones. No eran leales a un<br />

Partido, a un país ni a un ideal, sino que se<br />

guardaban mutua lealtad unos a otros. Por primera<br />

vez en su vida, Winston no despreció a los proles ni<br />

los creyó sólo una fuerza inerte. Algún día muy<br />

remoto recobrarían sus fuerzas y se lanzarían a la<br />

regeneración del mundo. Los proles continuaban<br />

siendo humanos. No se habían endurecido por<br />

dentro. Se habían atenido a las emociones primitivas<br />

que él, Winston, tenía que aprender de nuevo por un<br />

esfuerzo consciente. Y al pensar esto, recordó que<br />

unas semanas antes había visto sobre el pavimento<br />

una mano arrancada en un bombardeo y que la había<br />

apartado con el pie tirándola a la alcantarilla como si<br />

fuera un inservible troncho de lechuga.<br />

— Los proles son seres humanos —dijo en voz alta<br />

—. Nosotros, en cambio, no somos humanos.<br />

'Why not?' said Julia, who had woken up again. — ¿Por qué? —dijo Julia, que había vuelto a<br />

despertarse.<br />

He thought for a little while. 'Has it ever occurred<br />

to you,' he said, 'that the best thing for us to do<br />

would be simply to walk out of here before it's<br />

too late, and never see each other again?'<br />

Winston reflexionó un momento.<br />

— ¿No se te ha ocurrido pensar —dijo — que lo<br />

mejor que haríamos sería marcharnos de aquí antes<br />

de que sea demasiado tarde y no volver a vernos<br />

jamás?

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