For Winston and his girlfriend Julia, they were looking into the glass paperweight and seeing things and having ideas. For example, Winston rents a room for himself and Julia, which he claims does not have a telescreen. This symbol represents for them the peace and harmony of heaven. Since religion was banned in the world in 1984, the glass paperweight becomes a religion of sorts and adds depth to the story. Death means freedom for the main characters in Orwell's novel. Another symbol is the memory lapse. The memory hole is a tube of waste paper that sends documents to a huge oven where they can be burned and erased from memory. This reinforces the 1984 universe's idea that the past can be altered and erased. In fact, the Party frequently did this to people called vaporization, where all records of convicted people were deleted and those people were killed. The memory lapse represents the mutability of the past and the fact that, in Orwell's novel, history is unreliable. Orwell's classic 1984 is a haunting and disturbing novel. Everything from the constant surveillance to the mutability of the past adds to the frightening world Orwell created in his classic. Orwell's writing style is incredibly descriptive and paints a completely convincing picture of his dystopian setting. He doesn't use much figurative language, but he relies on logical fallacies accepted as fact to shock and intrigue the reader. A