“That’s coral, that is,” said the old man. “It must have come from the Indian Ocean. They used to kind of embed it in the glass. That wasn’t made less than a hundred years ago. More, by the look of it.”
“It’s a beautiful thing,” said Winston.
“It is a beautiful thing,” said the other appreciatively. “But there’s not many that’d say so nowadays.” He coughed (…) But who cares about genuine antiques nowadays-even the few that’s left?” (Orwell, 95)
The society in 1984 is seen as trying to move on from the past. Throughout the first section of the novel, Winston notices that mostly everything from the past is either gone, or ignored. This is because the Party (which represents the government) hides things from the public, making up lies to cover for the things that they don’t want to be released. They do this to prevent rebellion among the citizens. The proles (people who do not work for the Party) have the only items remaining from the past. The Party members do not have such items because the Party does not want rebellion to
This can be shown through the passage because when the old man says, “But who cares about genuine antiques nowadays-even the few that’s left” he implies that the Party has removed things from the past.
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