Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, a building devoted to altering previous informational documents that would reveal false integrity if discovered. He writes magazines, newspapers, books, etc. on a daily basis, with the aim of hiding secrets about the government from the people of Oceania. After Big Brother makes a false assumption about something “It [is] therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech so as to make him predict what actually happened” (Orwell 38-39). Part of Winston's job is to make sure that everything Big Brother says is true and correct. Not only is the ministry changing history, it is destroying evidence of the original story. The Ministry has memory holes used to remove ancient history, which send anything placed there "...in a stream of hot air towards the enormous furnaces that [are] hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building » (Orwell 38). These memory lapses disintegrate any documentation that could be used against the Party. Making the population ignorant of what is happening gives the government strength and more power to do what it wants. Likewise, the Party relies on ignorant people to obey higher authority. If proletarians, the lowest class of society, were as educated as the upper class, there would be an uprising and revolt against the Party. Winston recognizes that if the proletarians “…were somehow aware of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire” (Orwell, p. 69). Eighty-five percent of the Oceanian population is occupied by proletarians, but their limited knowledge prevents them from revolutionizing the society in which they live and forces them to obey parasitic rules. Thus, by keeping the proletarians in detention and modifying the past, the Party