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Characters from Nineteen Eighty-Four include:

Protagonist of the story. Serves as a Out party minor bureaucrat, and secretly loathes the oppressive society he lives in.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Winston's next-door neighbor and co-worker.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Fun: Enjoys outdoor activities and is quite active despite have a weight problem.
Calling Card: You can tell he's entered the room because a smell of sweat precedes him.
Dumb Is Good: Subverted. Orwell wrote him as a man of menial intellect who swallows the lies of the Party utterly without question, as he's supposed to represent those in a position to know better yet choose to remain loyal out of misplaced obedience to authority.
Fat Bastard: Subverted in terms of personality, he's portrayed as a genuinely nice person, but his weight is commented on disdainfully and his niceness is considered naivety by Winston and Syme.
Gym Bunny: Takes pride in his workouts at the community center and his home has tons of sports equipment.

A prominent Inner Party official whom Winston suspects of having anti-Party sympathies.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Cold-Blooded Torture: Zig Zagged. He's not above indulging in it or sanctioning others to do so, but the man is not a Sadist about it, genuinely believing he is helping the party he subjects the torture to, comparing it to cruel but necessary mental health therapy.
Double Agent: Left unclear. He at one point seems to work against the Party, but even when he's shown doing quite the opposite, his potential to have been a deep-cover agent against them is never entirely discounted, and he deliberately refuses to confirm if he truly lying about the subject at any point.

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