Title: Two Minutes Hate | Food For Thought!
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Divya Raveenthiran
August 7, 2011 at 9:35 am ∞
“Momentum is the driving force of a novel, the factor that encourages or impels the reader to turn the pages and follow through to the end.” Through the use of narrative devices such as dialogue, motif and setting momentum is achieved. George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ is based on a totalitarian society in Oceania. Orwell has used many narrative devices to attain momentum, specifically in Chapter 1 during the Two Minutes Hate. Two Minutes Hate is a daily ritual in which the citizens of Oceania take place in. They must publically show their hatred to their enemy, Emanuel Goldstein. Dialogue is a narrative device used in this section and as a result there is momentum. Orwell describes how the entire group break out into “a deep, slow rhythmical chant of ‘B-B!…B-B!…B-B! – over and over again, very slowly” (p.19). This shows how the society is brainwashed by the party and how controlling it is.