"'It was a church at one time. St.Clements Dane, it's name was.' He smiled apologetically, as though conscious of saying something slightly ridiculous, and added: 'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St.Clements!… Here comes a candle to light your bed, Here comes a chopper to chop off your head' (83)."
-This is a reference to the St.Clements Church in the City of Westminster, London. The song that Mr.Charrington sings to Winston is a song that the bells on the church play. The song comes back throughout the book here and there whenever Winston asks a new person if they know the rhyme. No one knows all of the rhyme except for O'Brien. This is strange because O'Brien is actually part of the Party, and yet he remembers the rhyme perfectly. It is possible that Orwell did this to show that O'Brien was different from the rest of the people in the society. He was evil and good at the same time. He truly believed that the things he was doing were right and there was no other way that could be better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons
excellent -- I like the thinking here, owning the fact that these are only possibilities.
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