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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel
Contents
Background and title
Plot
Characters
Main characters
Secondary characters
Unseen characters
World in novel
Ingsoc
Ministries of Oceania
Ministry of Peace
Ministry of Plenty
Ministry of Truth
Ministry of Love
Doublethink
Political geography
The Revolution
The War
Living standards
Themes
Nationalism
Futurology
Censorship
Surveillance
Newspeak appendix
Sources for literary motifs
Influences
Critical reception
Adaptations in other media
Translations
Cultural impact
Brave New World comparisons
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
Further reading
External links
Electronic editions
Film versions

Content: First he wrote 1980, then 1982, and only later 1984. The most fateful date in literature was a late amendment. — Dorian Lynskey, The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (2019)
Throughout its publication history, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been either banned or legally challenged as subversive or ideologically corrupting, like the dystopian novels We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler, Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye, and Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury. Some writers consider Zamyatin's We to have influenced Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel also bears significant similarities in plot and characters to Koestler's Darkness at Noon, which Orwell had reviewed and highly praised. The original manuscript for Nineteen Eighty-Four is Orwell's only surviving literary manuscript. It is presently held at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Plot
In the year 1984, civilization has been damaged by world war, civil conflict, and revolution. Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is a province of Oceania, one of the three totalitarian super-states that rule the world.