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* [[Unnamed Parent]]: Winston's mother.

* [[Unperson]]: [[Trope Codifier]]; Josef Stalin [[Older Than They Think|used the term long before this book was written.]]

* [[Unreliable ~~Narrator~~]]: Do Eurasia and Eastasia actually exist, or are they made up by the Party, which actually controls the whole world? Alternatively, does ''Oceania'' even exist, and does the Party actually control ''less'' than it says does? The whole point is that the information given out by the Party is unreliable, and seeing how the ''only'' information the reader receives comes from the Party, nobody knows for sure any details about "the world" of 1984. The Party may not control any territory outside the British Isles. It may not even control the whole of the UK. Seeing as Winston never leaves London, we'll never know.

* [[Unreliable Expositor]]: Do Eurasia and Eastasia actually exist, or are they made up by the Party, which actually controls the whole world? Alternatively, does ''Oceania'' even exist, and does the Party actually control ''less'' than it says does? The whole point is that the information given out by the Party is unreliable, and seeing how the ''only'' information the reader receives comes from the Party, nobody knows for sure any details about "the world" of 1984. The Party may not control any territory outside the British Isles. It may not even control the whole of the UK. Seeing as Winston never leaves London, we'll never know.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Whether or not a resistance movement actually exists}} is left completely ambiguous.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Inverted. Winston believes that despite the horrible atrocities the Party has done, its mission is this, but what the Party actually wants is only power.