Thursday 6 September 2012

What is symbolized by the paperweight in 1984? I need a quote from pages 44-104 showing what the paperweight is symbolic of. Using that quote, fully...

Note: I
have offered three quotes, but analyzed the third.

buys a paperweight from
an old junk shop. He thinks about it as follows:

Winston
... slid the coveted thing into his pocket. 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 thing was
doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness, though he could guess that it must once
have been intended as a paperweight. It was very heavy in his pocket, but fortunately it did not
make much of a bulge. It was a queer thing, even a compromising thing, for a Party member to
have in his possession. Anything old, and for that matter anything beautiful, was always vaguely
suspect. 

The paperweight fascinates him and he says to
:

€˜I dont think its anythingI mean, I dont think it was
ever put to any use. Thats what I like about it. Its a...

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