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Two Minutes Hate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (324 words) |
 | In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Two Minutes Hate is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting The Party's enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them and the principles of democracy. |
| Orwell's obvious reference in the sequence is to the utter demonization of an enemy during a time of war and the exultation of the cult of personality of the leaders of totalitarian states. |
| Hate week is an extrapolation of this period into an annual weeklong festival. |
| The Politburo Diktat: Two Minutes Hate (940 words) |
| The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. |
| Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. |
| The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. |
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