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* 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