History Characters / NineteenEightyFour

* AdaptationalNameChange: Julia was given the last name of 'Dixon' in the 1954 BBC Adaptation. In the book, her last name is not revealed.

* NoFullNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed (though the 1954 BBC adaptation gives it as Dixon).

-> ''' Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidNiven (1949 NBC Radio Adaptation), Creator/PatrickTroughton (1965 BBC Radio Adaptation), Creator/ChristopherEccleston (2013 BBC Radio Adaptation)

-> ''' Portrayed by:''' Norma Crane (1953 CBS TV Adaptation), Yvonne Mitchell (1954 BBC TV adaptation), Creator/JanSterling (1956 film adaptation), Suzanna Hamilton (1984 film adaptation), Creator/OliviaWilde (2017 Broadway Adaptation)

-> ''' Portrayed by:''' Creator/LorneGreene (1953 CBS TV Adaptation), Andre Morell (1954 BBC TV adaptation), Creator/MichaelRedgrave (1956 film adaptation), Creator/RichardBurton (1984 film adaptation), Creator/ReedBirney (2017 Broadway adaptation)

* AwfulWeddedLife: With his legal, Party-assigned wife.

* ControlFreak: The Party is a whole ''ideology'' of this. Thoughtcrime in general is the crime of not being controlled by the Party.

* CardCarryingVillain: One of the most chilling examples in all of media. The Party doesn't have any goals beyond absolute power and suffering of everyone, even it's supporters, as proof of it's power and O'Brien openly admits their vision of the world is one that is as cruel, cynical and outright miserable as it's possible to be.

* TheOmniscient: For all intents and purposes of the story (and certainly from Winston's perspective), he - and by extension the Party - is this. Regardless of what Winston did and no matter how obscure, he has intimate knowledge of it; and regardless of what Winston thinks, he has already had the very same thought and is aware of what goes through Wintson's head.

* BreadAndCircuses: The Party keeps the proles (relatively) in line with trashy media and lotteries alongside propaganda. Anyone smart enough to see through those, however, is taken care of by the Thought Police.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: We never actually see either of them, so it is hard to say what morality they are. That Eurasia fights against Oceania at first might make them seem good, but then they ally with Oceania while Eastasia turns on them, hinting they may not be so selfless or good. Its suggested by Goldstein's book that all of them are evil and in cahoots using the war to control their citizens. However, the fact that INGSOC wrote the book makes it decidedly unreliable.

* TheGhost: Much like Big Brother, we never see anyone from either of the two nations, making it hard to say if they even exist. All the information about them comes from either INGSOC propaganda or Goldstein's book, which was fabricated by O'Brien.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Oceania may be bad, but it's claimed in Goldstein's book that the two other superstates are almost ''exactly identical'' to it, with the story implying that this is one of the things the book is right about. They are always at war with each other, with [[ForeverWar nobody ever winning]]. If you live in one of the areas the three states are always fighting over, you are a slave in both body and mind to whoever has power over the area at the current time. It is heavily [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that an unspoken gentleman's agreement exists between the three states that they will never make a serious effort to destroy the others -- this is the reason no state ever uses mass conscription or [=WMDs=] -- because the war is part of the EvilPlan for the three of them to keep the standard of living down and mobilize the hatred of the population. Goldstein's book even mentions that Oceania could probably conquer all of Europe up to the [[UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} Polish]] frontier, or that Eastasia could likely seize Australia, but that neither state does so for fear of upsetting the BalanceOfPower. In accordance with this, the fighting -- if any is even happening -- is confined to a territory roughly encompassing most of Africa (apart from the portion controlled by Oceania), the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia; the open oceans; and the polar caps.

* TheGhost: Big Brother himself never actually makes an in-person appearance in the novel; It's left ambiguous as to whether he ever even actually existed as a real person.
* IronicNickname: Big Brother himself. The friendly, protective family member stereotype is so completely subsumed by the bullying one that, due to the novel's term being a pervasive AscendedMeme in its own right, the term on its own has no meaning: you can't tell whether someone's using it affectionately or making a reference to ''1984'' without context. Further perverted, as noted by Winston, in that the Party is deliberately breaking down family bonds, as can be seen with his neighbor being handed to the Thought Police by his children.
* InventedIndividual: Possibly.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is a clear {{expy}} of UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, being the leader of the Soviet-like Oceania with a cult of personality.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[invoked]] A rare in-universe example; despite the party's constant vilification of him, many of the things he advocates for are entirely reasonable, like more freedom for Oceania's people.

* LongGame: The Brotherhood, it’s claimed, is unable to launch an open rebellion against Oceania, so instead tries to undermine the regime through subversive actions, however insignificant or cruel. With the hope that sooner or later, even if it takes a thousand years, the Party could finally be defeated. This is implied, however, to simply be a ploy by the Inner Party to make thought criminals’ myriad crimes seem more believable.

* TheSociopath: O'Brien, a totalitarian dictatorship's agent who pretends to be a rebel leader so he can lure potential rebels to be tortured, and admits that all the Party wants is power.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never made clear if he even actually exists as a person, as title, or if he's just a face that The Party invented to direct their CultOfPersonality towards.