In the novel, “1984,” by George Orwell the main character, Winston is in a country that is in a war, but they’re also under the control of a government that is very strict and controls the lives of its citizens. In the novel it says that the Televisions in everyone house is set to watch and hear everyone’s conversations. I believe that they are just paranoid to the point where they think they are being constantly watched because they are met with propaganda and posters that say, “Big Brother Is Watching.” In the novel the Two Minute Hate group is where people are manipulated and are told to hate a man named Goldstein and all enemies of Big Brother. Two Minute Hate is an example of Groupthink because Groupthink is kind of like peer pressure
Social Exclusion and Harassment Hate is a passionate dislike for someone or something. It is a word that expresses a strong emotion and is shown in many ways. It can be shown physically, mentally, emotionally, and sometimes very harshly. Most people show it to people and/or objects. In a “Scary First Day” hate is shown through harassment towards “Little Rock 9,” and in “Lupita Manana” hate is revealed with social exclusion towards Lupita.
Austin Barnhill George Orwell, 1984 Part 1 reading journal chapter 1-8 1. Summary: In this first part of the novel Orwell takes a focus on his world building. He uses the chapters to explain the way the society under Big Brother works and why the party is able to control people the way they do. On important aspect of these chapters is the theme of knowing one’s history, as our main character Winston works in records and has a job of altering historical documents to coincide with party wishes, but he himself wants to know the truth behind history as a way to prove the corruption of the party. Another important aspect of these chapters is Winston’s rebellion its affects on him as these rebellious acts reveal what Winston want more than anything free to understand and think his own thoughts.
In Oceania there are four ministries, Ministry of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty. Winston works in the records department of the Ministry of Truth, his job involves “revising” and “fixing” records in newspapers to uphold the Party’s rendition of the past. He is agitated by this control of history, for example the Party claims that they are allies with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia, but what Winston remembers is the opposite. This contradiction is referred to in Newspeak as doublethink which is “the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely.” Winston does not want to live in a society with a prohibitive government.
Harrison Bergeron, society that 's place in the distant future where new laws and amendments are in effect. These amendment states that no person are different from one another; that everyone is smarter, stronger, or quicker than anyone else. To live in a society where everyone is the same under God, the talented and gifted people are required by law to be handicap. For which they must be downgraded to be equal to the average person. The beauty covered by a mask that hides an unchangeable characteristic from the unaccepting society.
Since the Party was always watching through the telescreens it made it difficult for Winston to express thoughts about the way that the Party limited every individual and took away human rights, “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision…he could be seen as well as heard” (Orwell 3). Another way the Party made it difficult to express one’s thoughts was through the hypnotizing routine, Two Minutes Hate. The Party used Two Minutes Hate to rally the people through hatred and fear of traitors like Emmanuel Goldstein and rival troops from Eurasia. Then at the end of Two Minutes Hate the Party manipulated people by making them feel safe and secure, “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obligated to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in” (Orwell 14).
Later during the Two Minutes Hate, he writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” over and over again. Once he does this we know for sure that he is different than everybody else. The biggest act of defiance and freedom, is when Winston and Julia have their affair. Up until that point in the book, Winston never did anything to horrible to the party.
The two minute hate broadcasted a picture of the infamous leader of the Brotherhood; the Party’s main opposition. Along with a picture, an intense sound also played throughout the entirety of Oceania, which drove some to insanity. In the novel, Orwell wrote, “Before the hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room” (Orwell 13). The main purpose of these two propaganda examples was to brainwash the audience. The goal is to keep the citizens of Oceania oblivious to how things should be, and how other forms of government could
Love is a recurring theme in the book 1984 written by George Orwell, and is expressed by different relationships/couples within Oceania. Each of the relationships, family or love wise are influenced and affected by the Party. Love is shown as a vague emotion either that some can genuinely feel, while others it is just a thought. Love is not allowed or accepted in the party because there is only room for one, Big Brother. Throughout the book, Orwell shows that love can be manipulated, is temporary, and there is only love for Big Brother is allowed through the characters and their relationships.
In George Orwell’s book 1984, the main character Winston, as well as everyone in society, has to participate in a daily event titled “two minutes hate”. The whole purpose of this event to have the capacity to share a common nemesis with the people living in the 1984 society controlled by a party system and a figure labeled as Big Brother. Within the society of George Orwell’s book, the people are flashed with eerie images and subliminal messages of the common nemesis whom they do not know how or why they feel repulsion towards them as the quote states,“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. ”(page 14) It is a form of propaganda that is used to influence the ideals of the people and their behavior.
The activity of the behavior that comes from of two minutes hate in the book of 1984 written by George Orwell shows that the group work they did was a bit unsettling because they did not React as they thought they would on page 18 in the book Winston was given a feeling of being Optimistic because he cared about the reason of the people and the effects because his eye was set on something bigger like the outcome, the results. I think Winston gave a feeling of being negative towards Big Brother because of the living conditions he knew people would have to deal with and the way they would be treated in this place where everything would be limited to them making them feel lesser than others. Everyone was being watched and at the same time there
During Two Minutes Hate, there is a huge screen displaying pictures of Goldstein that the members scream at and express their hatred for him. The worst part of Two Minutes Hate was that no one was obligated to actually take part in it, but it was almost impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds “a desire to kill, to torture, to smash” (16) overwhelmed and flowed through the entire group of people. Orwell explained that the rage that Winston and the people felt was an abstract, undirected emotion. Big brother used the propaganda of Two Minutes Hate to make the people of Oceania believe that it was wrong to go against Big Brother and they should hate anyone who does.
Hatred is being taught as some sort of language, it is the first element you are introduced to learn. To not know the feeling of happiness can definitely have an affect on the actions of people. These innocent humans are not growing up to do the best of their ability all because of those who crave too much power. This is interfering with their everyday circumstances because they are not aware of how to socialize or to have the freedom they deserve. Winston, a wise man, explains how a society cannot endure hatred and cruelty by saying, “It would have no vitality.
During a daily exercise known as the Two Minutes Hate, all Party members view a video usually featuring a speech denouncing the Party’s ideals and advocating for freedom and democracy. Even though Winston secretly supports these principles, he feels compelled to and even cannot avoid joining the frenzy of the Hate, entering a blind but abstract rage. He mentions that, “And yet that rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Thus, at one moment Winston’s hatred was not not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police….(Orwell 14). This is how Winston’s fear differs from that of other people’s.
In Orwell’s novel, 1984, he illustrates the commotion going on during the Hate Week. Big Brother wired the minds of people from Oceania to control their thoughts. In mid-sentence, the speaker switched the names around so that instead of being at war with Eurasia, Oceania was at war with Eastasia and the listeners did not notice the sudden change, showing how their minds are controlled. In this writing, Orwell emphasizes how corrupted the government is in some scenes during the Hate Week. Orwell acknowledges Hate week as being very rowdy, with citizens shouting, kicking, or with pure uproar coming from them, all caused by the same hatred towards Eurasia.
