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
Newspeak commit thoughtcrime" (verb). The adjective is formed with the suffix "–ful" ("crimethinkful") and the adverb is formed with the suffix "–wise" ("crimethinkwise"). The few irregular-form words, such as "Minitrue" (Ministry of Truth), "Minipax" (Ministry of Peace), "Miniplenty" (Ministry of Plenty), and "Miniluv" (Ministry of Love) identify the government ministries of the Party. The superlative forms of words are formed with the addition of the positive prefix "plus–" ("plusgood") and with the negative prefix "un–" (ungood). To communicate a greater degree, either of negativity or of positivity, requires affixing the prefix "double" to the other two prefixes to the root word