1984: Symbolism And Irony

Part I of Essay
Imagine a cold, dark world with horrible living conditions and never quite enough to eat. A world of “Decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.” ....

Part II of Essay
.... by a small paperweight. It is clear glass with a small piece of coral suspended inside. "The coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity in the heart of the crystal” The relationship of Winston and Julia was beautiful, but was also trapped and suspended in the world of Big Brother, like the coral. The name Julia is symbolic because it represents Juliet, a name that has a connotation of romance and love. This also gives significance to the passage where Winston wakes “with the word 'Shakespeare' on his lips." In the beg ....