Title: Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate — Digital Spy
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Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate
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john_john Posts: 437
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10/06/06 - 20:38 #10
totallytrashed wrote: Although Big Brother (the tv show) borrowed its title from the character in 1984 (the novel), people have tended to focus on the fact that the thing they both had in common was that people are being watched 24/7. However, I don't think that this is where the similarities end. Although Orwell's novel was based around a facist society and we live in a democratic capitalist society, there are many other similarities. 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.