The passage which best represents love as the theme of it is in the first pages of Chapter Five. In the passage Winston is realizing that he doesn't only like Julia for what she does for him physically but that he also has an emotional bound to her. He realizes that with her and with love in his life everything is better. He stops drinking and "the process of life had ceased to be intolerable..." He likes every minute and every detail of their time alone, "it did not matter...the room was paradise."
When someone falls in love everything is great when that person first realizes that he is actually in love. Life seems worth living. One only wants to be with his lover and live life with his companion alone. In this passage Winston is at this point in his affair. He only wants to be with Julia and loves everything that they share. He has a noticeable change in his lifestyle too. He has better health with his ulcer subsiding and doesn't cough in the morning jerks like an old man. He feels rejuvenated by Julia and by love.
The final passage in Chapter Four talks of a glass paperweight which can be associated with a symbolic meaning. Winston bought the paperweight earlier
The First Part ends with Winston scared that the "girl with dark hair" had seen him committing Thought Crime and would report him to the Thought Police. He imagines what would happen after they came for him in the middle of the night. He scared himself into orthodox things about Big Brother and he thinks of the Party slogans. This is not much contrast from the end of Part Two.
and was scared that Julia would see it when he thought she was spying on him. But now he shows it off to her as something of his own that is forbidden. The paperweight is made of glass with coral inside. Winston never tires of looking at it and imagining it was the world around him inside of it. It may not have been the world around him but it was representative of the world he lives in. The glass bubble is Oceania where nothing can escape and the coral is Winston's life, small, but it looks much bigger to Winston when he looks at it through the glass. "It was as though the surface of the glass had been the arch of the sky, enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete." This paperweight and the symbol of glass, being both fragile and sharp, is mentioned or alluded to several other times throughout Parts One and Two.
In the last passages of Part Two he does not think of he Thought Police coming for him but they actually do come for him. The actua
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