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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