The Ministry of Love serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine-gun nests, and guards armed with "jointed truncheons". Referred to as "the place where there is no darkness", its interior lights are never turned off. It is arguably the most powerful ministry, controlling the will of the population.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Inside the ministry is room 101, where prisoners and party enemies are subjected to their worst fears, nightmares and phobias, in order to break their wills.
While infiltrating British society after the fall of the dictatorial regime, Mina Murray, in the company of agent Jimmy, was taken to the now-defunct ministry, which served as an archive for secret documents. Although Jimmy tried to rape her, Mina managed to subdue her attacker and, with Allan help, retrieved the black file.
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The Ministry of Love is one of the most terrible scenarios in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, where the climax of the work takes place.