Characters in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Winston Smith

A Ministry of Truth clerk who falsifies the historical record and privately rebels through a diary, a love affair and a belief in objective truth.

Also in Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four

Big Brother

The Party's omnipresent figurehead, whose face and slogans dominate every public space and who may not exist at all.

Emmanuel Goldstein

The Party's designated Enemy of the People, denounced daily and credited with the underground's founding text.

Julia (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

A bold young Ministry of Truth worker whose forbidden affair with Winston becomes their shared act of rebellion.

Also in Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four

Tom Parsons

Syme

Julia Worthing (1984)

Mr. Charrington