Sitting before the blank diary page, Winston is about to commit a crime.
It is not surprising that at this moment, his sore begins to itch unbearably. It is a reminder of his guilty conscience and of the crime he is about to commit. It is his internalization of Big Brother, reminding him that any thought not in support of Big Brother is a crime.
n the long-term, King's actions helped to deliver the historical raft of civil rights legislation signed into law by President Johnson in the mid-1960s, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
