Like the names of other ministries, it also has a literal application: Perpetual war is what keeps the "peace" (the status quo) in Oceania and the balance of power in the world, and since the other major powers also use warfare as a means of maintaining the status quo, the two concepts are functionally identical.

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One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. Battersea, Holborn, the East End, the front line curled in and out of them … and yet to a casual eye Poplar High Street had hardly known the enemy, and there were pieces of Battersea where the public house stood at the corner with the dairy and the baker beside it, and as far as you could see there were no ruins anywhere. An old man snored across the aisle and at the end of the shelter two lovers lay on a mattress with their hands and knees touching. The Ministry of Peace may be the most vital organ of Oceania, seeing as the nation is supposedly in an ongoing genocidal war with either Eurasia or Eastasia and requires the right amount of force not to win the war, but keep it in a state of equilibrium.In keeping with the concept of doublethink, the ministry is thus aptly named in that it creates/manufactures "truth" in the Newspeak sense of the word.

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Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. The film stars Ray Milland, Dan Duryea and Margaret Reynolds The original music for the film was composed by Victor Young. Rowe takes his cake back to his lodgings in Guilford Street (which is still there, running from Russell Square to Gray’s Inn Road). The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.People went to Hampstead or St John’s Wood for a quiet week-end, and if you lived in Holborn you hadn’t time between the sirens to visit friends as far away as Kensington.