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The Ministry of Love (or Miniluv in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Airstrip One, Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The other Ministries are: Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace. A cartoonish version of the heart, a frequent modern symbol of love. ... Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... A ministry is a department of a government, led by a minister. ... George Orwell on TIME magazine cover from 1983. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four is a political novel by George Orwell. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...


The purpose of the Ministry of Love is to enforce loyalty and love of Big Brother through fear, torture, and brainwashing. The Ministry of Love has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine gun nests and armed guards. Big Brother as portrayed in the BBCs 1954 production of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...


It contains Room 101, which according to some, is "the worst thing in the world". Room 101 comes from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. ...


The Ministry of Love, as with the other ministries, has a very misleading name, since it is largely responsible for instilling misery, suffering and hate. Hate or hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon; a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy its object. ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell
Winston Smith | Julia | Big Brother | O'Brien
Oceania (including Airstrip One) | Eastasia | Eurasia
Ministries: Love | Peace | Plenty | Truth
Newspeak | Ingsoc | Thoughtcrime | Room 101
Telescreen | Sexcrime | Blackwhite | Goldstein's book | Memory hole
Two plus two make five | Film | Nineteen Eighty-Five | TV programme

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Ministry of Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (224 words)
The Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) was one of the four ministries that govern Airstrip One, Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The other Ministries were: Ministry of Love, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace.
The Ministry of Truth was where the main character, Winston Smith, works.
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