- "It was as when Winston had gazed into the heart of the paperweight, with the feeling that it would be possible to get inside that glassy world, and that once inside it time could be arrested. (p. 151)
The people of the Party strive to force memories of the past out of individual's heads and replace them with their own, altered versions. Winston is in an unceasing fight against this process and buys a glass paperweight in attempts to remember the true past. Orwell expresses Winston's desire to leave the former alone, "arresting" time and leaving previous events trapped inside a "glassy world." Further into the story, the paperweight shatters when Winston is arrested, symbolizing that his battle is finally lost.
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