"There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are dead. Our only true life is in the future" (Orwell, 176).
The fact that the brotherhood is resigned to death before seeing any of their work take effect shows how hopeless the state of their world is. That a revolution could take so many deaths to make the most minuscule change exemplifies how committed the brotherhood is to their cause, and how slowly progressing their cause is. The function of the brotherhood is very interesting because their organization is the very opposite of a "brotherhood". They are united by an ideal, but not by any sense of "nationalism". Indeed, each member only knows four to five other members. This wish for a world from the past is strong enough to unite the brotherhood just as strongly as any other revolutionary group. They are willing to kill, destroy, commit suicide, or change their bodies for the brotherhood. They pledge their lives to a party they do not even know the size of. This shows how one small seed of a revolutionary idea can bring together people of the same cause, even under the worst conditions.
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