Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four The Ministries of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth are ministries in George Orwell's futuristic dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", set in Oceania. Despite the name, no actual "ministers" are mentioned in the book, and all public attention is focused on the idealized figurehead Big Brother. The Ministry of Love (Newspeak: Miniluv) serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine-gun
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