Posted by Mike on June 04, 2002 at 20:00:48:
In Reply to: what is the significance of...... posted by Fonikz on June 04, 2002 at 19:21:23:
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It's symbolic of the "world" he and Julia are creating to escape the Party.
It's a piece of the past, before Big Brother/Ingsoc and the Party came into power. Like Winston's memeory of his childhood it's used to contrast the actual past withthe fabricated past being created by the Party.
Good discussion on this site here:
"One of these symbols is the paperweight that Winston buys in the old junk-shop. It stands for the fragile little world that Winston and Julia have made for each other. They are the coral inside of it. As Orwell wrote: "It is a little chunk of history, that they have forgotten to alter". The "Golden Country" is another symbol. It 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" of Winstons dreams..." http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/1984.htm