Symbolism Of The Paperweight In 1984 By George Orwell

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The glass paperweight is a symbol of Winston's attempts to connect to the past, before Big Brother took over Oceania. In the old junk shop where he bought his journal, he finds a glass-and-coral paperweight that was made "less than a hundred years ago" (95). Winston buys the rather useless object despite the fact that no one needs paper and the Party will be suspicious. The paperweight precedes Big Brother by about 80 years; therefore, a reason for Winston purchasing it is because it is a remnant of the pre-Party years. Consequently, the paperweight is a symbol of the past because it is the one of the only physical objects left from that particular time period that has not been destroyed by time or the government. The symbolism continues as

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