Syme is a character in Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is a man who is a co-worker of Winston at the Ministry of Truth, and Winston’s comrade/friend. He is an expert in the Newspeak language and is working on a Newspeak dictionary. He is very intelligent and Winston predicts he will be vaporized because of his intelligence; sure enough, his prediction comes true when Syme suddenly disappears.
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