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The book 1984 is set in what was a futuristic dystopia. Winston is a outer party member who is looking for a way to rebel but he is in fear of the party. People around him are becoming unpersons that are said to have not existed. His job is to falsify the past in the Ministry of Truth. His life changes when he meets Julia who becomes his lover and they find their own ways to rebel by finding a hideout and meeting there to do illegal things. They are attempting to find a way into the Brotherhood and they are in constant fear of the thought police that are looking to capture and destroy their very being.

The main character in the book is Winston. Winston is a 39 year old man who hates the totalitarianism government secretly. He lives in fear of it but being a deep thinker he often imagines ways of destroying it. Julia is Winstons lover. She is beautiful and dark haired as has her own small personal rebellions against the party. O'Brian is a mysterious and powerful member of the inner party who Winston believes to be a member of the legendary anti-party group; the brotherhood.

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