Hate Week is a fictional event in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 . Hate Week is a psychological operation designed to maximize the hatred of the population towards the current enemy of the totalitarian party, depending on which of the two countries ( Eurasia or Ostasia ) is currently at war.
Summary
During one Hate Week, Oceania changed her ally and enemy, while the public speaker was in the middle of the proposal, but despite this, the breakdown was minimal: posters against the previous enemy instantly became “ sabotage ” of the Hate Week by Emmanuel Goldstein and his supporters which were eventually demolished by the crowd and quickly replaced by propaganda against the new enemy, thereby demonstrating the ease with which the party controls the hatred of its members. This ease can also be partially explained by the similarity in terms of “Ostasia” and “Eurasia”, since they are easily confused. All Oceania members are expected to show enthusiasm during the Hate Week, as well as the daily two-minute hate . Although participation in this event is not legally binding, avoiding or abandoning it causes the Police to suspect thoughts , which usually lead to the evaporation of the offender. This ensures that they are against the opposing side and are still in alliance with Big Brother [1] [2] .
Hate Week is celebrated in late summer. Events during this time include wax demonstrations, military parades, speeches and lectures. New slogans and songs are also being composed. It is mentioned that the unit from the art department was instructed to publish brochures on atrocities (falsified reports of atrocities committed against her by opponents of Oceania), designed to stimulate the population of Oceania and run into mad frenzy against all enemies. Thus, the cumulative effect of Hatred Week is to arouse the population to such an extent that it “would undoubtedly tear the captured enemy soldiers to pieces” if it were given such an opportunity. First mentioned in the second paragraph of the first page of " 1984 "; however, at the moment, the reader does not know what Hate Week is. “This was part of the economy’s desire to prepare for the Hate Week” [3] .
Cultural Influence
The “Hate Week" was adopted by theorists and scientists as a comparator for real efforts to demonize the enemy of the state. Soviet literary theorist John Rodden notes that the “Hate Week” portrayed in George Orwell’s novel anticipates some of the anti-American events in the Soviet Union that followed [4] . Scott Boulding claims the similarities between an unacceptable week of hatred and the efforts of the Stalinists to supplant religion with party devotion. [5] Other theorists compared Orwell’s Hate Week with periods of anti-Soviet sentiment in the United States [6] , as well as other Cold War campaigns against puppet states [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Erika Gottlieb (2001), Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial , McGill-Queen's Press, p. 86, ISBN 978-0-7735-2206-0
- ↑ Dandaneau, Steven P .; Taking it Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times Pine Forge Press, p. 53, 2001; ISBN 0-7619-8703-7, ISBN 978-0-7619-8703-1
- ↑ Orwell, George; Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 1, 1948
- ↑ John Rodden, "Soviet Literary Policy, 1945-1989," Spring 1988 .
- ↑ Scott A. Boulding, “The Road to Postmodernism Through Dystopia,” Fri 15 May 2009
- ↑ A. Palladin, "THE US: INSTILLING HATRED", Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, The, No. 37, Vol. 37, 9 October 1985, page (s): 17-17 .
- ↑ Richard Neville, “Amerika psycho: behind Uncle Sam's mask of sanity”, Ocean Press, 2003, page 66