CHARACTERS

[Micaela Andrade]

The characters I liked the least are the Parsons’ children. They are two siblings, a boy of nine years old and a girl of seven, who are enrolled in the Junior Spies League. Big Brother imposed a law that sexual act was admitted only to produce children for the Party use such as the Junior Spies. By this way it would be easier to the Party to know who is being unfaithful to the totalitarian government of Big Brother. Since little, the Parson’s children were trained to catch traitors. In the Junior Spies League, they got brainwashed against everything that could be a threat to the Party and adored the Party by singing songs of it, shouting slogans, attending to processions and hangings and worshiping their leader. The goal of the Junior Spies League was making them so cruel and insensible so they won’t feel any guilt in the moment of denouncing their own parents to the Thought Police and any other person. At the age they are now, they are heroes for the Party for catching foreigners who could be from Eurasia or Eastasia traitors, but tomorrow one of them could become the leader of the Party for their great behavior and compromise with it. There would be no good future with Junior Spies as Party members. Instead people will live with more fear and in worst conditions. I hate these kids and all the other Junior Spies because of the fact of being brainwashed they are damaging older people who think different but in the right way. They are treacherous because they feel they are the hope for the state. But also I feel sorry for them because they don’t have the fault of becoming Junior Spies, but their parents do and for being so innocent and incapable of thinking for themselves.
Micaela Andrade

[Jose Antonio Ponce]

The character I liked the most in this story is Big Brother, even though there is not much information about him. The mystery of this Big man made me realize the power he obtained throughout Oceania to be able to rule everyone at in the way he want it. This man is the kind of person that achieves what he wants at any cost, and that made me feel identified with him in some aspect, because most of the time I get what I want. He uses fear, propaganda and technology and language as the base to control his people all around Oceania. He has the ability of conducting masses and making them do what he wants, which is a quality of the most successful and powerful leaders we had seen in history, like for example Adolf Hitler. He new how to manipulate people and took advantage of their weaknesses to make them belief absurd things that not even a 3 year old will accept, like stating that war is peace, that ignorance was strength or that freedom was slavery. Event though the book doesn’t shows happiness, joy, stability, good living conditions or freedom in the people that lived in Oceania; Big Brother somehow reached loyalty on his people, so they respect him, follow him and belief him, and that is another reason he could control Oceania and catch any traitor so easily. This character contributes with a lot of suspense, mystery and overall it is the background brain of the story that makes it possible to happen.
Jose Antonio Ponce

[christianluna]

My favorite character of the novel is O Brien becuase he is a mysterious character through out the story. He puts somewhat of intrige in the book as I wasnt sure if he was against the Party of with the it. I was suprised when I knew that O Brien was working in the Minestry of Love and was a loyal spie of Big Brother that hunted any one who opposed to the dictator. I think O Brien is a very intelligent person as he succesfuly convinces Winston (the main character) to think that he also hates the party, by telling Winston that the Brootherhood is real etc. I also liked about O Brien that how he can manipulates and brainwashes all the opposers or traitors to Big Brother by using fear methods like when he is about to take out the rats in the face of Winston. He is very smart and made me the impression that he plans his actions step by step very carefuly.

Christian Luna

[rflor]

Aug 29, 2010 18:28:57 GMT -5 christianluna said:

My favorite character of the novel is O Brien becuase he is a mysterious character through out the story.

I wont say its my favorite but yeah he makes the ending incredible. In the beginning he seemed to be a GOldstein follower but ends up been a thought police which changes Winston life.

Its strange to think that in the minute of hate, winston was the only one who lost attention of it and looked around the people. O'Brien got contiousness of it and followed the game of Winston. Thats where i started to thinkl that he wasnt like Winston, that he was rather a thought Police.

Aug 29, 2010 18:28:57 GMT -5 christianluna said:

I was suprised when I knew that O Brien was working in the Minestry of Love and was a loyal spie of Big Brother that hunted any one who opposed to the dictator.

See thats where the real intligence of a goverment comes from! [glow=red,2,300]The Opposiytion side[/glow]. Thats the best way of knowing what the opposition thinks and is capable of doing! He becomes the guide of opposition and takes the oppositors like Winston to the hands of the Party.

Aug 29, 2010 18:28:57 GMT -5 christianluna said:

I also liked about O Brien that how he can manipulates and brainwashes all the opposers or traitors to Big Brother by using fear methods like when he is about to take out the rats in the face of Winston.

He uses what are peoples Kriptonite to say it in a way. Fear is the most powerful weapon they have. They study the person very detailed and know it, their biggest horror and use it as they want.

Besides fear is what their inhabitants feel the most, fear of the thought police, fear of speaking against Big Brother while sleeping, fear of getting denounced by young kids and spies.

Ricardo Flor Blanco

[vanessaalarcon]

My favorite character of the novel 1984 is Julia. I admire her free will and spontaneous attitude. I find her extremely interesting because even though the party oppresses her she still lives her life as she wants to. The way Julia is described in the novel is very inspiring since she is a strong willed woman who takes risks even if the outcome of them is fatal. I love the influence she has on Winston because as soon as their affair starts he becomes a more enthusiastic man who has something to look foreward to in his everyday life.

Vanessa Alarcon Borja

[vanessaalarcon]

The character I dislike the most is Katharine, Winston’s long gone wife. She is one of the reasons for which Winston ended up as a bitter and pessimistic person. She is also the reason for which Winston and Julia never get married and therefore, are caught. Katharine is just another of the party controlled minds. The way she is described, as a stiff, hollow human being – who acts more as a machine than as an actual human being – makes me hate the party and the way it rules.

[camilauribe]

Winston Smith, the protagonist of the book 1984, is my favorite character of the story. He is a 39-year-old man that has a job in the government. He has a curious attitude to find out until what limit the Party and the Thought Police could go against its citizens. Unlike the other characters in the book, he maintains his individuality as well as a diary, which was illegal. He has seen the terrible consequences of a totalitarian government so now he what to go against it, writing in his diary “Down with Big Brother.” Winston is willing to take every possible risk so that the Thought Police and the Party will catch and punish him. He even manages to have a love affair with Julia, a pretty girl that worked in the same building as him. One day Winston decides to tell O’Brian that we wanted to be a rebel against Big Brother. O’Brian tells him that he is already a rebel and that Winston should read a book that explains the why the government is like that. When Winston finally finishes the book the Thought Police catches him and takes him to the torture rooms. It turns out that O’Brian betrayed Winston. After a series of tortures the government finally decide that they have taken Winston’s dignity away. Winston is my favorite character because he wants to have his rights back, so he rebels against the Party. Even though everyone has to think alike, Winton has his own thoughts, that is what I like the most about him-that he is an individual and not one more of the crowd. Although, at the end of the story Winston becomes like everyone else (being in favor of the Party and not even thinking anything rebellious), but this happens because the government went against his rights as human. They torture him until he becomes a thoughtless person.

Camila Uribe

[xaviponz]

The character I liked was O´Brien because he had this kind of mysterious job and pretends to be one of the allies of Winston but is totally the opposite. He occults his identity really well because of the cruelty his has inside him. Winston fall into the game of deceive when O´Brien tells him with gentle word this: ''Do you remember writing in your diary,' he said, 'that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.' (Part 3, Chapter 2, pg. 271). That’s why I like this character so much because he knows really well how to do his job by putting himself as a victim. O´Brien turn to be in charge of Winston’s torture.

Xavier Ponce Zambrano

[mholguin]

My favorite character is O’Brien; he is an unpredictable character who gives the novel a sense of mystery and intrigue. You would never expect him to trick Winston and Julia. I was totally surprised when I found out that O’Brien was a strong member of the Inner Party who had convinced Winston and Julia that they belonged to The Brotherhood, a secret organization against the Inner Party. All through the novel he does his job so well, that you will never have a clue on suspecting on him. He not only surprises you but leaves you with a lot of unresolved questions; of weather the Brotherhood really exists and if O’Brien was once a rebel.
Martina Holguin

[mholguin]

Other character which I really liked is Julia, she is a very decided but at the same time spontaneous women. She is not afraid of showing or expressing what she thinks, she lives the moments and takes advantage of it as much as she can; but at the same time is concerned on not getting caught by the thought police which gives a little more excitement to the novel. She also gives you a sense of trust, which Winston feels immediately and is able to share his hate towards the party.
Martina Holguin

[ateran]

The character I liked the most on this book is Winston Smith because of the way he questioned the place were he lived and tried to seek for a better place that may have existed. Winston was the only one that really hated the way “Big Brother” managed Oceania and even do he couldn’t really do anything to change this because he was alone thinking this way. He kept the diary as a way of rebellion and tried to figure out how everything was before the rebellion but it was impossible for him to rebel alone on the dystopia. One aspect I didn’t like of Winston do was that at the end he was weak and was brainwashed as the rest of the habitants of this totalitarian state. I would rater he be vaporized but defended his rights and believes. Apart from that Winston was the only one that realized there could be something better than a world like this and find lots of the oppressions imposed to him unnecessary.
ALFREDO JOSE TERAN

[crismantilla]

The character I liked the most was Julia. She was 26 years old and had black hair, brown eyes and freckles. She lived at a hostel with other girls and worked at the Fiction Department. While she was the troop leader in the Spies and the branch secretary in the Youth league, her intentions were others. Julia loved to be a secret rebel to the party and doing things that made her happiness without letting anybody know. She was completely in love with Winston and didn't care the wide gap between their ages. I really liked how she stood up for what she believed and never gave up on finding a way to destroy the party and bring the big brother down. She was a very smart and organized woman who loved to discuss about politics and was quite a thinker. She was a very admirable person with great values and an optimistic personality.

Cristina Mantilla

[juandiegoalbuja]

The character that I like the most is Winston Smith he is the protagonist of the book and he is definitely the most trouble one sins he does not found inspiration of life due to the fact that the Party controls everything. Winston realizes that there may be something more a better life and that the Party is hiding and erasing many things.This is way I like him because he goes against the things the Party makes him believes. He starts a rebellion with Julia and O`Brien been part of it who laters betrays him for this he becomes torture that is the hardes part of Winston and how he for so long and so many pain was brake down but still keep something of his own. In the end the Party was able to brian wash by torturing Winston so he had to go to a lot and admire that

Juan Diego Albuja

[camichiriboga]

The character I like the most in the book 1984 is Winston Smith. He is a man who works at the Ministry of Truth in the Records Department. He is an 39 year old man that has a different view in life than others at the time. He is against everything that away freedom of men and human rights. he lives in a time where everyone is controled by a political party called the Brotherhood. but he still has hope of a different life, he has lived ruled by this party his whole life and has learned to follow it but he knows there is a better life somewhere. He feels passion for breaking the rules and feeling emocions that the party tries to talke away from humans. but he is also a common man lost in this world and little by little discovers people that join him in his dissaproval of the party. I like this character because of this flame he has to continue looking for a better life not just continue and surrender to Big Brother. He fights throughout the whole novel to achieve this chantge at least in his life to some day reach complet freedom.
Camila Chiriboga