Nineteen Eighty-Four is dystopian.
The Ministries of Love , Peace , Plenty , and Truth are ministries in George Orwell 's futuristic fiction dystopia novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , set in Oceania . Oceania , Eurasia and Eastasia are the three fictional superstates in George Orwell 's satirical dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four '' . Nineteen Eighty-Four . 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 . As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction , Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content , plot and style .