Title: Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week. - eNotes.com
Headings: Describe "Hate Week" with 3 quotations of what they are working on, and explain the purpose of Hate Week.
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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: stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked. Julia’s unit in the Fiction Department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of atrocity pamphlets. In the quote above, we see the details of all the resources put into this event, resources that might logically be spent on bettering people's lives. But as we later find out, the state wants to make sure resources are squandered on anything but improving the material status of the people. The Hate Weeks are the culmination of a vicious circle in which people are made angry because of all the sordid deprivations they endure, deprivations in part caused by the devotion of so many resources to Hate Week. 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.