The diary functions as a symbol of s thoughtcrime, his private revolt against the
Party, and of the old times, before the Party came to power, which he is continually trying to
recall and discover. He records in writing his hatred for Big Brother and the Party, but even
before he writes in it, the book as a physical object (together with the old-fashioned fountain
pen he uses to record his thoughts) is already a symbol of everything the Party stands
against:
It was a peculiarly beautiful book. Its smooth
creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at
least forty years past. He could guess, however, that the book was much older than
that.
The diary, however, does not only function as a
symbol. It plays an important role in the . is above all a novel of ideas.
When the...
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