Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel.
Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . Ingsoc . Ingsoc ( Newspeak for English Socialism or the English Socialist Party ) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell 's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . The Ministries of Love , Peace , Plenty , and Truth are ministries in George Orwell 's futuristic fiction dystopia novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , set in Oceania . Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell . The protagonist of the novel , Winston Smith , is a member of the Outer Party , who works for the Ministry of Truth ( or Minitrue in Newspeak ) , which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism .