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
George Orwell bibliography Peter Davison, which began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter includes an addendum, "The Lost Orwell" (2007). The impact of Orwell's large corpus is manifested in additions to the Western canon such as "Nineteen Eighty-Four", its subjection to continued public notice and scholarly analyses, and the changes to vernacular English it has effected—notably the adoption of "Orwellian" as a description of totalitarian societies. Orwell wrote six novels: "Burmese Days", "A Clergyman's Daughter", "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", "Coming Up for Air", "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Most of these were semi-autobiographical. "Burmese Days" was inspired by his period working as an