What is the significance of the countryside setting where Winston and Julia meet for the first time?

The
setting is one thathas seen before in a recurring dream. He calls it "the Golden
Country," and in the dream a woman appears, flings off her clothes, and makes love to him,
just asdoes in reality. To Winston, the Golden Country is a kind of Eden, an unspoiled place
that represents the world as he imagines it was before the reign of the Party. Both the woman in
the dream and Julia are emblematic of the uninhibited sexuality Winston believes has the power
to defeat the Party.

's use of this setting is also part of a tradition in
literature of contrasting rural purity with urban corruption and ugliness. It's interesting that
in his earlier novel Orwell shows a similar tryst in the countryside
outside of London between his protagonists Gordon and Rosemary. This takes place in the 1930s,
during the Depression, but is thematically similar to the episode in . In
each case, a couple flees the city's harsh realityin the 1930s, a reality...