The Use Of Imagery In Winston's Golden Country

Orwell uses imagery with elements of nature throughout the entirety of 1984. Nature is used in this novel often to convey a sort of tranquility, stemming from Winston’s desire to be free of the party. In Winston’s Golden Country, nature is used to signify the breaking of the party’s totalitarian ways; the Red Prole Woman representing his hope for a free future, and the Coral Paperweight representing his hope grasping a freer past.

Winston’s and Julia’s meeting in the woods signifies breaking the totalitarian ways of the party. Here Winston feels free from observation, and gets a glimpse of the freedom that the party opposes. It is a place for lovemaking, a utter horrendous crime in their state. Here there are only Winston’s and Julia’s eyes,

These bushes signify the Party’s need for observation and control; an unknowing person would pay no mind towards them, however they ironically are hiding a place free from the Party’s rule. Julia forces the bushes open, though there had seemed to be no opening. Through the bushes is a “natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by tall saplings that shut it in completely” and in this clearing, Julia and Winston are free from the watch of the party; shut in completely from the outside world with complete and utter freedom. Winston strangely recalls the place in which he meets Julia as the Golden Country recurring in his dreams, a place in which he describes with a sense of solitude. In his dream the

The red-armed prole woman outside Mr. Charrington's shop is a huge symbol in the novel. She is described as a woman “roughened by work till it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip”, her body “like a block of granite”. In Chapter 10 Winston gazes upon her and has “the feeling that the sky had been washed too”, describing her hard work ethic. Winston suddenly comes to the realization that this woman is beautiful because she is free, working relentlessly with her tough but worn body and singing for the world. He sees her as the future of Oceania, as hope for freedom, her built body a catalyst for the future generations of rebelling proles. She “bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose” and imaged “swollen like a fertilized fruit” when pregnant, in which Winston directly alludes to her ability of bearing children through the imagery of flowers. Winston asks himself this question “Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?” as well, showing Winston’s understanding that people are becoming more and more inferior than their previous generations because of the Party. The flower imagery here also is a symbol to her child bearing ability and with this imagery used with the context that generations are becoming more inferior, it cleverly alludes to Winston and Julia seeing her as a birthgiver of rebels. Afterwards he asks Julia if she remembers the thrush that