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1984
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George Orwell
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1984 Characters
Meet the Cast
Winston Smith
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
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
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
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...
The Proles
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...
