Chapter 7 Book 2

[Bluebiird]

Hi all. We're studying 1984 this year and I'm a little stuck. For my next english class on wednesday I have to give the class a summary, notes and key points on CHAPTER 7 BOOK 2. Seeing as I've got a rather bad cold (Which you may notice that I have broadcast in my posts today, sorry about that) my head's a bit cloudy at the moment and I'm having trouble focusing on the text. On the first page of Chapter 7 it says that the dream "had all occourred inside the glass paperweight, but the surface of the glass was the dome of the sky, and inside the dome everything was flooded with clear soft light in which one could see into iterminable distances".
I'm just having trouble figuring out why Orwell said that it had occourred in the paperweight. What's the meaning behing it.
Any help will be great.
Thanks.

(P.S. sorry for any spelling mistakes in this, cloudy heads do that.)

[Mojophonious]

i believe the dream about the paperweight is a metaphor for the safety Winston feels while tucked away with Julia at Mr. Charrington's junk shop. soon after (or before) he goes into a specific discourse, almost a rant about how sick he is of reinventing an already fabricated past - where the real true past has no record; and the only things we can trust are the untouched memories of our own confused minds, and miniscule artifacts such as the glass paperweight - which also continues to be his little talisman of neverfading beauty in a harsh world where your cigarrettes disintegrate; colleagues disappear, soap is like sandpaper and there are never enough razoblades.

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[Bluebiird]

Thanks. I never thought of it that way.
Please accept this dancing banana and smiley face as a thank you
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:)