Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four omniscience of the state in the society of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" that even a citizen's nightmares are known to the Party. The nightmare, and therefore the threatened punishment, of the protagonist Winston Smith is to be attacked by rats. This is manifested in Room 101 by confronting Smith with a wire cage that contains two large rats. The front of the cage is shaped so that it can fit over a person's face. A trap-door is then opened, allowing the rats to devour the victim's face. This cage is fitted over Smith's face, but he saves himself by begging the authorities
Nineteen Eighty-Four (2003) reports that the title "1984" was chosen simply as an inversion of the year 1948, the year in which it was being completed, and that the date was meant to give an immediacy and urgency to the menace of totalitarian rule. Throughout its publication history, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has been either banned or legally challenged, as subversive or ideologically corrupting, like the dystopian novels "We" (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, "Brave New World" (1932) by Aldous Huxley, "Darkness at Noon" (1940) by Arthur Koestler, "Kallocain" (1940) by Karin Boye and "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) by Ray Bradbury. Some writers consider the Russian