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
Disturbing the Peace (novel) writer. While Yates' short-story collection "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" was celebrated, his second novel "A Special Providence" was panned. The lackluster sales and critical reception for "Disturbing the Peace" convinced many that "like Fitzgerald and so many others, he’d squandered his talent, drank it away." This reputation persisted until the following year when Yates published his acclaimed novel "The Easter Parade". For some period of time, Joe Pesci held the film rights but never acted on it. Disturbing the Peace (novel) Disturbing the Peace is a novel by American writer Richard Yates. First published in 1975, Yates' fourth book concerns