O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four) O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four) O'Brien (known as O'Connor in the 1956 film adaptation of the novel) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The protagonist Winston Smith, living in a dystopian society governed by the Party, feels strangely drawn to Inner Party member O'Brien. Orwell never reveals O'Brien's first name. O'Brien is a member of the Inner Party and, like Winston Smith, works in the Ministry of Truth. There, he holds an administrative position that is so distant that Winston has only a vague idea of its nature. Winston suspects that O'Brien secretly opposes
Julia (Nineteen Eighty-Four) been replaced by love for Big Brother – the only form of love that is approved by the Party. Like Winston, Julia is a smoker. During the affair between them, Julia ambiguously acquires goods such as "real" coffee, tea, bread and milk, theoretically only available to the Inner Party members (as opposed to the lower-quality "Victory" brand products consumed by Outer Party members and Proles), luxuries which seem to exacerbate the sense of the affair. Julia (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Julia is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Her last name is never given in the novel