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
Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK TV programme) Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK TV programme) Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed subversive nature and horrific content. In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to determine the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was ranked in seventy-third position. Orwell's novel was adapted for television by Nigel Kneale, one of the most prolific