Who were the sympathetic characters?

The sympathetic characters are those we identify with in a novel. In 1984 these would be Winston Smith and Julia. The story is told through the eyes of Winston, an average outer party member who leads a gray, miserable life like most of the other outer party members. The story opens as he rebels against being forbidden to have independent thoughts. He starts a journal, and we as readers immediately understand his desire to have the freedom of his own ideas. We also immediately feel suspense because we learn that what he is doing is highly subversive and if discovered will get him into deep trouble. 
We sympathize as well with the vibrant, practical, and courageous Julia, who takes the risk of reaching out to Winston even though it is forbidden. It is easy to see how Winston could fall in love her. We sympathize with the simple desires of this twosome to have an ordinary love relationship and an ordinary life of companionship with each other in the room above Mr. Carrington's store. Both characters represent being fully human in a society that is trying to crush their humanity.