The coral
paperweight symbolizes 's desire to escape into the time before the Party took over. He longs,
in an idealized way, to recapture some of what normal life was like in those former days. As
Winston thinks when he buys the artifact:
What appealed to
him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age
quite different from the present one. The soft, rainwatery glass was not like any glass that he
had ever seen.
The coral paperweight also symbolizes the
special world that Winston attempts to create withseparate from the everyday world
of...
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