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1984 By George Orwell: Character Analysis

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Characters can be used to portray many different ideas and symbols. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, there are many different characters, all with different purposes. There’s Winston, the rebellious protagonist. There’s Big Brother, the corrupt dictator that rules over the corrupt country that Winston lives in. However, behind these main characters, there are others that run deeper than the basic hero and villain. These characters are used to symbolize ideas, such as hope, they make the reader empathize with the protagonist, and they present new, outside concepts to the story. One personality that is used to symbolize a broader idea is Parsons, the symbol of hope in the novel who is a father of two that works with Winston and is represented as …show more content…

Julia’s character focuses on this aspect of Oceania life and brings to light the importance behind this initiative of
Big Brother’s. Julia introduces Winston to her ideas of the importance of the anti-sex league when she explains, “‘When you make love you 're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don 't give a damn for anything. They can 't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour.’” (Orwell 2.3.25). In this quote, Julia introduces the idea that the purpose of the anti-sex league is so that pent up sexual energy can be transferred into loving Big
Brother. This is important because she brings a new idea to Winston and further pushes the reader to believe that Big Brother is bad. The reader can see how Julia’s ideas affect Winston when Orwell writes, “There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch, except by bottling down some powerful instinct and

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