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Emmanuel Goldstein
The eternal heretic
Orwell's shadow of the purged revolutionary.
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Orwell's heretic-in-chief — a thinly veiled Trotsky figure whose 'Book' critiques the very regime that needs him as its eternal enemy.
social
Symbol of the free, critical revolutionary intellect.
economic
Stands (in Party myth) for the workers' revolution betrayed.
governance
The arch-dissident against the totalitarian state.
Notable for
- The Party's designated enemy (in-story)
- Author of 'the Book'
- Trotsky allegory
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