Title: What is Hate Week in 1984? - eNotes.com
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What is Hate Week in 1984?
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In Oceania, the Party is always looking for ways to bind people more closely to the state. That makes it much easier for them to be monitored, controlled, and brainwashed. One way of achieving this goal is the national festival known as Hate Week. During this period, which always takes place in late summer, the people of Oceania are encouraged to hate the regime's enemies, such as the rival powers Eastasia and Eurasia. But citizens are also incited to hate internal enemies, those deemed to display subversive, counter-revolutionary tendencies. The hatred generated by Hate Week is appropriately intense—so much so that if a captured enemy soldier happened to make an appearance, he would be torn limb from limb by an enraged populace. Readiness to commit violence is seen as a sign of loyalty to the regime, and so it pays to show the appropriate degree of enthusiasm in this regard.