[Music] there are a number of key characters in 1984 Winston Smith is the protagonist a 39 year old member of the outer party working for the Ministry of Truth he remembers as a child living in London in the days before the Revolution his longing for truth and decency causes him to hate the party and he is secretly rebelling by writing in a diary Winston repels further by engaging in a sexual relationship with Julia and trying to join the counter-revolutionary movement known as the Brotherhood Winston believes that eventually his rebellion will be uncovered and he will be vaporized big brother is the figurehead of the party and the supreme leader who rules Oceania people are not expected to just follow him but love him and his face is everywhere including on posters coins and the ever-present telescreen it is highly possible the Big Brother is a symbol and not an actual person as long as the party maintains control big brother will never die O'Brien is a prominent member of the inner party Winston instinctively admires and feels drawn to O'Brien who's intelligent and cunning Winston is convinced that O'Brien secretly hates the party Julia is first introduced as the dark-haired girl she works in the fiction departments of the Ministry of Truth only 26 julia has no memories of anything prior to the 1960s she was a member of the youth league and the Junior anti-sex League and only makes pretense of being a good party member she despises the party but hides her contempt and her rule breaking activities are always cautious she enjoys what pleasure she can without being caught she is opportunistic and proactive she's not interested in politics and is untroubled by the party's lives Julia lives in the now and does not worry about the future Emmanuel Goldstein is an early leader of Big Brother's revolution who broke off from the party when he felt it had betrayed his idealistic goals the party uses Goldstein's face to convince people that there is a revolutionary group opposing Big Brother because the party consistently lies to the people it's even possible that Goldstein doesn't and never did exist mr. Charrington is a frail man of about sixty and the owner of an antique shop he's a prole and friendly soft-spoken and unassuming Winston seems to like him as soon as they meet and he takes an interest in useless items that have a simple beauty about them he keeps a room above his shop as it would have looked before the Revolution his clothes are simple his hair is white and he wears spectacles and speaks in a cockney accent he has an air of intellect and is better educated than many members of the English working class but there is more to mr. Charrington's than Winston notices at first he's a member of thought police you