Winston Smith is the common man, easy for the reader to identify with, easy to sympathize with. Thirty-nine-years-old, he is frail and thin, and is employed as a records editor or propaganda office...
Julia is Winston Smith’s Juliet. Is the name a coincidence? Probably not. A duplicitous and whimsical creature, her sexual allure inspires Winston to start the rebellious writings (because he...
O’Brien is a total mystery. This novel raises more questions about O’Brien than it answers. An Inner Party member and a large, burly man with a thick neck and a brutal face, he wears bl...
Mr. Charrington is an old widower with a cockney accent that keeps a secondhand store in the Prole district. He sells Winston the journal he starts in Book One, and rents out the room atop that sam...
OK, so the proles are really a group of people. But they function with the importance of a single character. In fact, they all around seem like one, collective character because they’re not s...
