Title: Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week. - eNotes.com
Headings: Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week.
1984
Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week.
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Content: In addition, the use of the word also suggests Orwell’s view of the posters and other propaganda as atrocious. At one point, Orwell discusses the musical element of Hate Week: The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week (the Hate Song, it was called) had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens. It had a savage, barking rhythm which could not exactly be called music, but resembled the beating of a drum. His use of the words “savage,” “barking,” and “beating” conveys his views of Hate Week and the supporting propaganda and jingoes that accompany it. Ironically, after all the preparation for Hate Week, in which the focus will be Oceania’s enemy Eurasia and when “and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium,” it turns out that
“Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.” Orwell uses satire here to mock Oceania and the fomenting of anti-Eurasia sentiment. He notes the easily fickle political winds that can change within the span of a Hate Week to make a former enemy an ally and a former ally an enemy.