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 . The superstate and its residents are dictated to by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism , shortened to `` Ingsoc '' in Newspeak , the government 's invented language .