"Shakespeare"

"With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word "Shakespeare" on his lips." (Orwell 31).

Winston here is talking about a dream he had where the dark-haired girl (Julia) threw off her clothes. It is not so much the particular gesture that is important here, but the idea that a single gesture could be enough to overturn Big Brother and the Party. Like I said earlier, the energies of the Outer Party are proles are very easy to direct--they only need something solid to be directed on, as they have a lot of extra repressed energy that must go somewhere. Therefore, Winston thinks that if given some kind of motivation, their loyalties might very easily be switched and their minds changed. Here, Shakespeare is a symbol of times past, as well as beauty, expression and intelligence or knowledge. I think that this dream is suggesting that if the people were only informed, only had more knowledge, only were exposed to art and beauty like Shakespeare, they might switch their loyalties and turn against Big Brother.