Title: Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week. - eNotes.com
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Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week.
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Content: We see how wholly manufactured Hate Week is when the enemy being hated changes near the end of the week. The point is not to have a particular enemy, but to have the experience of hate itself. The target is completely unimportant. We see here too how much power the state has: people hate who they are told to without thinking. On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. When people realize they have a new enemy, they simply determine that the posters and banners naming the enemy as Eurasia are works of sabotage. They then direct their aggressions towards destroying the suddenly "false" banners. This shows how easily people are manipulated. Approved by eNotes Editorial Team
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Hate Week is another one of the methods used by the Party to direct the people's feelings of anger, frustration, and hatred towards a common enemy - in this case initially their warring enemy of Eurasia.