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'The Golden Country In George Orwell's 1984'

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The Golden Country is perceived by Winston as a utopia. Or I would rather say the Golden country is his view of his ideal world. It symbolizes peace, freedom, hope. It is the opposite of the reality in the world he lives: corruption, cruelty, darkness, and inhumanity. The description of the Golden Country serves to compare the contrast between GC to what Big Brother has created. His dream about the Golden Country prophetically foreshadows his forbidden affair with the dark-haired girl. The Golden Country also represents the history, which was linked to freedom. He is longing for the good old days when each idea had an owner, with freedom, peace was priceless. In the Golden Country, he can express his ideas safely and experience anything he …show more content…

The Golden Country represents a place of great beauty, peace and unity that appears in Winston’s dreams. This is the type of place Winston desires for so much that indeed it is felt like heaven to him. “He was in the golden country…short springy turf underfoot and gentle sunshine,” illustrates to the reader very boldly of the landscape outlined by Winston and that it is a vision of fantasy and brightness due to the words “short springy,” and “gentle sunshine.” Orwell has used alliteration, "Short springy" to emphasize the brightness and happiness Winston feels in the golden country by giving humorous and creative selection of words and techniques. This reinforces the idea of freedom Winston feels in contrast to the total regime in the society of Oceania. This symbolism is very significant as it outlines clearly Winston’s desires and thoughts that is usually forbidden within the society. The world of 1984, lives in total totalitarianism so that most thinking and opinionating must be operated secretly and that “Thought Crime is …show more content…

In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair. Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees. Orwell addresses, again, the problem of fact and memory. "The past . . . had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory." Memory and history are major themes in the novel. Winston muses that the history books claim that the Party invented airplanes (a claim actually made by the German government during World War II). Yet Winston is certain that he remembers planes before the Party's existence. Of course, he has no way to prove it. 1984: Golden

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