Title: Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate — Digital Spy
Headings: Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate
Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate
Content: For example, in Orwell's book the media is used to influence and control people in various ways. The proles (the uneducated working class) are told to hate certain people, and they gather around their tv screens every day for a "2 minute Hate" - a kind of outpouring or hatred, directed at a single person who is the enemy of the State. Here's a quote from George Orwell's 1984: " 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. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic." Remind you of anything? Like a typical Friday night eviction episode? Ironically, the object of hatred, is simply a construct - not even real. In the same way, we are manipulated into hating people who have been heavily edited and put in a bizarre situation where most people would not be able to cope without having their personalities break down.