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 . Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell .