Parsons is active in his community groups, and appears to truly believe Party claims and doctrine. However, his daughter eventually denounces him to the Thought Police, claiming he was saying "Down with Big Brother" in his sleep.
Winston sees Tom while imprisoned in the Ministry of Love, and Tom is ironically proud of his seven-year-old daughter for having done her duty. A coworker of Winston's, Tillotson sits across from him in the Records Department and is extremely secretive about his work.
A coworker of Winston's, and a poet who works in the Records Department rewriting politically or ideologically objectionable Oldspeak poems. By the end of the novel, Ampleforth is in prison along with Winston, for, he believes having left the word "God" in one of his poems. A "friend" of Winston's and a philologist working on the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. Although Winston dislikes Syme, he enjoys having somewhat interesting conversations with him.
Winston notices that Syme, although a devoted Party member, is too smart and too vocal for his own good. He predicts Syme will be vaporized, and is proven correct when he suddenly disappears. Winston's wife, who never appears directly in the book but is discussed at some length. Winston describes her as "unthinkful" and claims she was absurdly devoted to the Party, to the point where she referred to sleeping with Winston to produce offspring as her "duty to the Party.
In a conversation with Julia, Winston reveals he was once tempted to murder Katharine when they were separated from others on a nature walk. However, he did not, and he assumes Katharine still lives, although he has not seen her in years.
The owner of the antique shop where Winston first buys his diary, pen, and later on a glass paperweight. Winston rents the room above the shop from Mr. Charrington for his love affair with Julia. Charrington appears to be a kind old man interested in history and the past, but later reveals himself to be a member of the Thought Police. Charrington leads Winston and Julia into his trap, and observes their action from the hidden telescreen in the room above the shop.
As he is being arrested, Winston notices that Mr. Charrington looks entirely different, and has clearly been working under disguise for quite some time. O'Brien's servant, Martin is a small, dark-haired man who Winston believes might be Chinese.
He leads Winston and Julia into O'Brien's apartment and sits in on their meeting, but does not speak. The subject of a "correction" Winston must make at the Ministry of Truth after Withers is vaporized.
A man Winston invents to replace Comrade Withers when "correcting" the news story surrounding the honors Withers, an unperson, received from the Party. Three Inner Party members wrongly arrested in and forced to incriminate themselves of various crimes, including treason and murder. They are eventually killed. Winston finds a clipping proving their innocence and destroys the document, but never forgets holding the proof that Party "fact" was fiction.
Charrington Emmanuel Goldstein. Why is the war in never ending? Why is the photo of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford important? Is Julia a spy working with the Thought Police? Why is Julia attracted to Winston? Why is Newspeak so important? Winston would sure like it to be the former, and Julia does suggest that her acts are her own small rebellion.
But still, she is generally uninterested in fighting the good fight. In fact, the reason she approached Winston with the "I love you" note was probably to start yet another illicit affair. Clever gal. When Julia and Winston fall in love, they commit the biggest possible offense against the Party because of the newly constructed, shared, private loyalty to one another.
Supposedly, if you love a person, you have less love left to give to the Party. The moment Winston and Julia are captured signifies the importance of their bond.
So what does it mean that the two betray each other? Perhaps that love is weak and feeble in the face of, um, rats. Or that, ultimately, people value themselves and their own safety more highly than their loved one.
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