Title: Two Minutes Hate | Food For Thought!
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Two Minutes Hate
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Content: References to Emmanuel Goldstein as a sheep are made throughout the text to emphasize the helplessness an futility of resistance to the Party. Goldstein is described as: “ a lean Jewish face, with great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard… kind of senile silliness.” The likening of Goldstein to a sheep is symbolic of the Party’s total control over the populace of Oceania. Even those who fight against the Party are no more powerful than sheep to their shepherd. In doing this, the readers are compelled to oppose the Party, arousing emotions that develop momentum. Reply
isobelklu
August 7, 2011 at 5:45 am ∞
The ‘Two Minutes Hate’ in George Orwell’s novel 1984 generates momentum in the story and intrigues the reader to continue. Winston Smith, the protagonist of the story, is portrayed as a fairly levelheaded, intelligent man until the ‘Two Minutes Hate’ when even he is succumbed to frenzy. ” Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair… a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people” (pg17). Orwell uses this narrative device of characterisation to expose to the reader to how easily manipulated and controlled the Party members can be.