Book and Co.

* The paperweight that Winston buys in the old junk shop represents the fragile little world that Winston and Julia have made for each other. They are the coral inside it. Orwell states "The coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity in the heart of the crystal" Julia was someone who Winston could share his private emotions with.When they were together it created a small world of feeling for themselves for a short period of time before they are betrayed. Orwell also says "It is a little chunk of history that they have forgotten to alter". This line expresses that their love can never be altered no matter how much they try to change it because in their minds it will always exist.

* The "Golden Country" stands for the old European pastoral landscape. The place where Winston and Julia meet for the first time to make love to each other is exactly like the "Golden Country" in Winston's dreams. It represents a place where Winston can never be hurt. It is his place where he is truly free and he relates that to the place Where Julia and himself first meet.

* The nursery rhymes have a romantic value to them. They have become distorted and manipulated by the Party. For example one rhyme ends with "I sold you and you sold me", expressing things that will happen in the end of the novel. The only people allowed to sing these rhyme were the proles. It was uncommon for a Party member to sing aloud to themselves. This signifies, in a small way, that the proles have more freedom then the outer Party members. Freedom, which Julia and Winston search for, is given to the proles.

* Orwell divides the fictional superstates in the book according to the division that can be found in our history's own Cold War. Oceania stands for the United States of America , Eurasia for Russia and Eastasia for China. The fact that the two socialistic countries Eastasia and Eurasia ( in our case Russia and China ) are at war with each other, corresponds to our history.

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