The "Parade"

[Mr. Willhoit]

Describe the "parade" in Victory square. Why does the Inner Party
provide the spectacle for the proles? For the Outer Party members?

[Julie Champagne]

Some cars approach from the Victory Square and people start running
across the Square, shouting and yelling at a convoy of Eurasian
prisoners. The crowd is venomous. There were a few boos and hisses but
it was only from the Party members. In the book they say that the
prisoners, either from Eurasia or Eastasia, were like strange animals.
Winston doesn't know what happen to them, if they are hanged as war
criminals or they are just vanished, presumably in forced-labor camps.
The Party provides the spectacle to the Proles because they want the
proles to hate Eurasians and to show that the war is real and that
they won by bringing some prisoners back. For the outer party members,
it is more a divertissement to see poor people being brought somewhere
and vanished and also see people yelling at them and hate them. They
have no pity and are proud of it.

[ryans...@yahoo.com]

Like Julie said cars arrive at Victory square and people run across
the way to greet them. When they finally get to the cars they start
harassing them with chants and hissing they were very hostile towards
the prisoners of the foreign country, they looked at them like they
were animals or some strange peoples that did not belong among them in
the society. The Proles did not know what was to become of the
strange people in the parade but despised none the less. I think that
the party provided this parade for one reason and that was so that
they could force the Proles to believe that the war was a big thing
and that they needed rely on what the party does for them. And
finally it says that they felt nothing for the people and they did not
care that they felt this nothing and all that was important to them
was the fact that they could see the prisoners and that the party was
supposedly on their side.