Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward as "rehabilitated thought criminals" leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into adoring (loving) Big Brother, hence its name. Like the Nazi salute, Ingsoc has its own salute to Big Brother, which consists of crossing one's arms above the head during Two Minutes Hates and Hate weeks, showing loyalty to Big Brother and the Party. Note that it is only mentioned and shown in the movie adaptation of the novel. Since the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four", the phrase "Big Brother" has come into common use
George Orwell bibliography Peter Davison, which began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter includes an addendum, "The Lost Orwell" (2007). The impact of Orwell's large corpus is manifested in additions to the Western canon such as "Nineteen Eighty-Four", its subjection to continued public notice and scholarly analyses, and the changes to vernacular English it has effected—notably the adoption of "Orwellian" as a description of totalitarian societies. Orwell wrote six novels: "Burmese Days", "A Clergyman's Daughter", "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", "Coming Up for Air", "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Most of these were semi-autobiographical. "Burmese Days" was inspired by his period working as an