The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

a. Characters 
Major character 
1. Winston Smith 
 
Winstonis the novel's protagonist, he is partying workers, working in The 
Ministry of Truth. He is thirty nine years old with skinny physical features, he has 
varicose veins on the right knee and five and false teeth. He has rewritten the task 
in The Ministry of Truth that has been printed in Time News beforehand according 
to the wishes of the party. He is opposite the Party, hates Big Brother, also the 
purity and goodness that the party formulates. 
Afterwards he often wishes to join the Goldstein underground 
(Brotherhood) movement to overthrow Big Brother. He thinks critically and 
deeply about the past before Big Brother's rule, and knows a bit of lies created by 
the party. He has a high sex instinct, he thinks about evaporating someone based 
on the person's nature. There are two worries in Winston life that are rats and 
quilts to his mother and sister. He finds unobtrusive methods to rebel, or at least 

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he believes them to go unnoticed. In his main desire is to remain human under 
inhuman circumstances. 
2. 
Julia 
 
She is twenty six years old, working in the Departmentof Fiction in the 
making of novels. She has a good posture with dark hair, light brown eyes and 
thick eyelashes, red lips spread wide. In a around of his eyes, there are one or two 
lines. Sometimes, she is displaying a good character in the eyes of the party, and 
working in the making of Pornosecs stories for pro-teens. He becomes one of 
volunteers in the Youth League of Antisex.
In contrast, she works and does free sex with a member of the party when 
she was sixteen years old. Although she obeys the small rules the Party by spying 
as a child, putting up party posters, never ditching assignments, but in the fact, she 
hates party rules. She does acts of vicious violations that she did with secretly and 
ingeniously. She assumes that ―when you want to have fun, then the party wants 
to stop it‖. She is thinking indifferent to the social conditions that existed while 
she was able to survive party noises.
However, she has no interest in the doctrine and the intricacies of party lies. 
She is against the Party's doctrines, but she merely wants to break the rules, not 
changes the society. 
3. 
Big Brother 
 
He is the leader of the Party. Big Brother is a godlike figure, all-present, all-
powerful, and eternal—yet quite intangible. He has a large face poster with a 

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width of one meter more; based on the poster is approximately forty five years 
old. He is thick moustache and facial expression in a handsome outline. 
4. O‘Brien 
 
He is a member of the inner party. A mysterious figure, O‘Brien is at once 
Winston's enemy and his ally.That are the reasons for Winston's ultimate 
indoctrination to the Party. O'Brien is a personification of the Party. He knows
much of the Party's doctrine. It revealed through him. He looks horrible, big, 
stocky, sturdy neck and face rough, comical, brutal, wearing glasses and always 
fix the location of his glasses on his nose, so look elegant and educated. 
Minor Character 
5. Thought Police 
The gatherings of several people that working for Big Brother to oversee 
every member of the party. They are tapping into the wires of one's thoughts in 
the form of sounds. They observeby gestures, but they are spreading false 
rumours, marking and eliminating some people whose value can be dangerous in 
the Prole without influence them with the ideology of the Party. 
6. Mrs. Person
The neighbor‘s wife who lives on the floor with Winston, she is thirty years 
old, but looks older than her age, she was dusty in the curves of her face and her 
hair tangled. 

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7. Person 
He is Winston's neighbour who ends up in the Ministry of Love with 
Winston. He turns in by his own children. Although he has a fat body and the 
smell of sweat spreading from his body, but he has enterprise stupid with a lump 
of spirits, damp spots sprawling all over his pink face. He never critical, he fullsof 
the party beyond the mind police. When he was thirty five-year-old, he expelled 
from the Youth League, but before that he survived spying for a year beyond the 
provisions. 
In the ministry, he is placed in a lowly post that does not demand 
intelligence, but he is an important figure on the Sports Committee and all other 
committees that organized community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, saving 
campaigns, and voluntary activities in general. 
8. Syme
He is a philologist, a Newspeak expert, he works in the Research 
Department of Ministry of Truth. He has a small body,dark hair,and bushy eyes 
with a moody. He is mocking impassion, and intimidating while talking to 
another guy. He works a large team member composed of experts to compose a 
Newspeak Dictionary Eleventh Print. He has a deep thought, yet overly intelligent 
orthodoxy with clear views and a clear talk. 
9. Katharine 
The wife of Winston, she is the tall woman with bright hair, she has elegant 
gestures. A challenging face, gaunt like a noble or a noble. According to 

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Winston, his wife is a stupid, very vulgar and empty woman. He thinks that her 
mind full of slogans, ―No party is not believed by her‖. 
10. The Prole
On the value of a low-ranking camp like the party's easy-to-rule animals, the 
proles majority does not have telescreen at home. All matters of morality, they are 
allowed to follow the inheritance of their ancestors, crimes, criminals of thieves, 
thieves, prostitutes, drug criminals, and all kinds of swindlers left to the prole. 
Even they have free sex running without punishment, divorce allowed, but 
they have to still continue to work and their other activities are not important and 
should not be suspected. As in the slogan the Party says: "The Prole and the 
animals are free". The only public event that the prole is paying attention to is the 
Lottery with the big draws are drawn every week organized by the Ministry of 
Plenty with a number of small wins actually paid to them. 
11. Mr. Charrington 
He is the owner of the shop where is Winston rents the room, he is sixty 
years old, weak and bent, he has put and pleasant nose. The gentle eyes gilded 
with his thick glasses. His hair almost white, but his eyebrows is thick and still 
black, gentle and delicate movements. He has gentle sounds fade away with an 
accent above the proles. He uses an out-dated jacket of black velvet seemed 
intellectually like a poet or a musician, but in the end of the story, he becomes a 
member of the Thought Police. 

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12. Ampleforth
He is a poet-of-sorts who works with Winston in the Ministry of Truth and 
also winds up in the Ministry of Love. He has the makings of playing with rhyme 
and the number of syllables (poets). He works in the making of versions of poems 
that are twisted or referred to as definitive texts, the text is ideologically 
unpleasant, but for some reason its existence is retained by the Party in various 
anthologies of poetry.