“...since the end of the Neolithic Age...” (Page 260)
The Neolithic Age was a time of cultural prosperity that began sometime around 10,000 BC. This time period marked the end of the Stone Age and encompassed a development in human technology with crop cultivation and animal domestication - an overall rise in farming. Although Orwell references the Neolithic Age within Goldstein’s novel embedded in the plot of 1984, the allusion has a direct connection to Orwell’s dystopian society. Just as the Neolithic Age presented a new variance in culture with its shift from a society of hunter-gatherers to settled agriculturalists, the people of 1984 experience a shift from, as Winston remembers, free individuals to oppressed individuals. Orwell makes a point of showing that, similarly to how early humans lost their primitive instincts, the people of Oceania are forced into losing their former morals and actions.
"The Neolithic Age." March of the Titans. Web. 11 May 2010. http://www.white-history.com/hwr3.htm.
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