Thursday, September 22, 2011
These three chapters of Orwell's 1984 were of particular interest to me. Orwell further explored Winston and Julia's relationship, and explained a dream Winston had regarding his childhood. One specific thing that stood out to me was the contrasting ideas with the snow globe. The narrator uses the snow globe one way to demonstrate Winston and Julia's love: "Getting there was difficult and dangerous, but the room itself was a sanctuary. It was as when Winston had gazed into the heart of the paperweight, with the feeling that it would be possible to get inside that glassy world..." (Orwell 151). We know that the globe is glass, therefore unbreakable and think, yet transparent, just like the love the two share. The narrator also uses the snow globe in describing Winston's dream: "It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him...It had all occurred inside the glass paperweight, but the surface of the glass was the done of the sky..." (160). Winston's childhood was a dark and depressing time. He was a troubled child who one day returned home to find his mother and sister gone. After reading this quote and about Winston's dream, I immediately thought back to the quote above and realized that the globe was used to describe different things: love and Winston's childhood.
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