1984 Character

Question: Big Brother

Answer: Symbol of Party, perceived ruler of Oceania

-about 45, heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features

-one of original founders of the Party and Revolution

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

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Question: Winston Smith

Answer: Main Character, worked in Records Department, Outer Party

-39, smallish and frail figure. Very fair hair, naturally optimistic face, roughened skin

-against totalitarian control of government and has revolutionary dreams/ideals

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Question: Julia

Answer: Love Interest, worked in Fiction Department, Outer Party

-26, bold-looking girl, thick dark hair, freckled face. SCARLET SASH AROUND WAIST IS ICONIC

Rebellion against the Party is personal and for own enjoyment whereas Winston’s is of ideological motivation

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Question: O’Brien

Answer: Main Antagonist, Inner Party

-Large, burly man with thicc neck and coarse, humorous, brutal face. Settled spectacles on his nose in “curiously civilized” way

Winston believed he was member of Brotherhood, anti-party rebels

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Question: Emmanuel Goldstein

Answer: Enemy of the People, Primal Traitor, Leader of the Brotherhood

-lean JEWISH face, fuzzy aureole of white hair and small goatee beard. Clever face yet somehow despicable, with senile silliness in long thin nose, which a pair of spectacles rested

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Question: Mrs. Parsons

Answer: -colorless, crushed-looking woman, wispy hair and lined face

-woman about 30, but looks much older

children are suspicious, ill-mannered members of Junior Spies

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Question: Syme

Answer: Winston’s “Friend”, Philologist and specialist in Newspeak, Outer Party

-tiny creature, dark hair and large bulging eyes, VAPORIZED

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Question: Tom Parsons

Answer: Outer Party, Winston’s neighbors

-35, tubby, middle-sized man with fairhair and frog-like face. Appearance was similar to that of little boy grown large

-unquestioningly accepts everything party tells him

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Question: Mr. Charrington

Answer: Prole Store Owner, undercover Thought Police

-around 60, frail and bowed, benevolent nose with mild eyes and thicc spectacles. Hair was white but eyebrows still black and bushy

-seems to support Winston’s rebellion against the Party

“new charrington” had black hair and ditched spectacles, black eyebrows less bushy, everything seemed shorter especially nose, now man of about “five-and-thirty”

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Question: Martin

Answer: O’Brien’s servant

-small, dark-haired man. Diamond-shaped face with complete lack of expression, may be chinese meet him before Oceania was “at war” with eastasia

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Question: Tillotson

Answer: coworker of Winston

-small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man

-sat across from winston and very secretive of work

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Question: Ampleforth

Answer: coworker of winston, works as poet

-mild man with hairy ears and talent in rhyme and meters

-put in ministry of truth for leaving the word “god” in a poem

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Question: Withers

Answer: former inner party member, received Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class

-subject of “correction” when Winston had to rewrite article because Withers was vaporized

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Question: Comrade Ogilvy

Answer: created by Winston to replace Withers

-was the “perfect party member” , died at 23

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Question: Katharine

Answer: Winston’s Wife

-tall, fair-haired girl, very straight. Bold, aquiline face

-absurdly devoted to Party, “duty to the party” was to make bebes

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Question: Old Man Prole

Answer: last connection to past that Winston could find

-very old man maybe 80, pale-blue eyes, bent but active, white mustached

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Question: J Bumstead

Answer: prisoner in ministry of truth, tries to feed starving man and ends up with broken jaw

-chinless, toothy face like a rodent

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Question: Jones, Aaronson, Rutherford

Answer: -inner party members wrongly accused and eventually killed

-Winston finds clipping proving their innocence but destroys document

proved to Winston that the Party’s “fact” is fiction

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