In the novel, “1984” by George Orwell, several examples of characterization are shown. Characterization is the way that we see a character based on their personality and is able to reveal something about the person and communicate that to the reader. There are two types of characterization. One is direct and the other is indirect. Direct characterization tells the reader or audience exactly what the character is feeling and their personality based on what they say, think, their effects on others, their actions and their looks, like how their dressed and their facial expressions. An example of direct characterization from the novel is, “his solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expression on his face was still indecipherable. He was waiting, somewhat sternly, for Winston to peak, but about what? Even now it was quite conceivable that he was simply a busy man wondering irritably why he had been interrupted” (Orwell 182). This quote tells us that O’Brien is getting quite impatient and is irritated that Winston and Julia have interrupted him. The author is doing that by communicating with us directly and using what O’Brien is thinking and his actions to describe the way he feels and his personality in this particular chapter. Indirect characterization doesn’t describe a character in a straightforward way, but we as the readers, are shown something about the character and can use inferring to determine what they are feeling. There are many ways to incorporate indirect characterization into a story and here is a great example from “1984,” “at the far end of the room O’Brien was sitting at a table under a green-shaded lamp, with a mass of papers on either side of him. He had not bothered to look up when the servant showed Julia and Winston in” (Orwell 180). This quote doesn’t tell us exactly what O’Brien is thinking when the couple walk in, but we can infer that he is very busy and preoccupied with what is going on at his desk and barely notices them, or perhaps he is somewhat annoyed. We can interpret this and many other examples of indirect characterization in plenty of different ways because the author is not stating exactly how and when or what the character is feeling, so there’s really know right or one answer. Characterization gives a character life and is necessary to give any character a meaning or purpose in a story, book, TV series, movie or any other form of media. It tells us so much about a character whether this is done directly or indirectly.