Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Winston Smith
Nineteen Eighty-Four character
Winston Smith portrayed by John Hurt in the 1984 film Nineteen Eighty-Four
First appearanceNineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Created byGeorge Orwell
Portrayed byRichard Widmark (1953)
Peter Cushing (1954)
Edmond O'Brien (1956)
John Hurt (1984)
In-universe information
AffiliationOuter Party
The Brotherhood
SpouseKatharine
Significant otherJulia
NationalityBritish/Oceanic (in film)

Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel also being born in 1945-46 according to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ... [the reader] can readily identify with."[1]

  1. ^ Gottlieb, Erika (1992). The Orwell Conundrum: A Cry of Despair or Faith in the Spirit of Man?. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-88629-175-5.