A long time ago, I had asked myself: "why does Winston wake up with the word Shakespeare on his lips?"
After a lot of thinking and reflections, I might have found the answer. Winston was dreaming about his mother, his younger sibling, and their sacrifice in order for him to be alive. he wondered why was it that people no longer held hands and showed affection for one another. Why was it that friends and families no longer came in help to those who needed it. Why it was that you could no longer feel the love in the air. In Romeo and Juliet, from Shakespeare, the fourteen year old lovers would be ready to sacrifice themselves for the other, and they cannot imagine a world where they would have to live without the other. It is a tragedy, yes, but it is a very passionate one, ad though it was stupid of them to kill themselves for the other. And it was very romantic too. (Love brings people to do very stupid things). They did it out of love for the other. The thing is, we do not see any more of this love and passion in 1984. Winston was probably dreaming of love and care, and they only example he could find was Shakespeare's plays. Or maybe not the ONLY one, but perhaps the strongest one.
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