Zwei Minuten Hass

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In [[George Orwell]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', the '''Two Minutes' Hate''' is a daily period in which Party members of the society of [[Oceania (1984)|Oceania]] must watch a film depicting The Party's enemies (notably [[Emmanuel Goldstein]] and his followers) and express their hatred for them.

==Details in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''==
The film and its accompanying auditory and visual cues (which include a grinding noise that Orwell describes as "of some monstrous machine running without oil") are a form of [[brainwashing]] to Party members, attempting to whip them into a frenzy of [[hatred]] and loathing for [[Emmanuel Goldstein]] and the current enemy superstate. Apparently, it is not uncommon for those caught up in the hate to physically assault the [[telescreen]], as [[Julia (1984)|Julia]] does during the scene.

The film becomes more surreal as it progresses, with Goldstein's face [[morphing]] into a sheep as enemy soldiers advance on the viewers, before one such soldier [[breaking the fourth wall|charges at the screen]], [[submachine gun]] blazing. He morphs, finally, into the face of [[Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Big Brother]] at the end of the two minutes. At the end, the mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted viewers chant "BB" over and over again, ritualistically.

Within the book, the purpose of 'the hate' is said to satisfy the citizens' subdued feelings of [[angst]] and hatred from leading such a censored lifestyle.

In one such Two Minutes' Hate, the audience is introduced to [[Inner Party]] member and key character [[O'Brien (book character)|O'Brien]]. Within the novel, [[hate week]] is an extrapolation of the two minute period into an annual week-long [[festival]].

==Origins of the term==
Orwell did not invent the term "Two minutes' hate"; it was already in use in the [[First World War]].<ref name="leicestershire" /> At that time, British writers [[satire|satirised]] the German campaign of hatred against the English, and imagined a Prussian family sitting around the kitchen table having its "daily hate."<ref name="mrpunch">{{Cite web | last = Graves | first = Charles Larcom | title = Mr. Punch's History of the Great War | publisher = Project Gutenberg | date = 1 March 2004 [Upload date] | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11571 | format = Various [plain text or HTML] | accessdate = 12 November 2009}}</ref>

In addition, short daily [[artillery]] bombardments made by either side during the [[First World War]], and aimed at disrupting enemy routines, were known as "hates":

{{quote|The evening of this same inspection was one of the few occasions on which Pommier was bombarded. A sudden ''two minutes’ ‘hate’'' of about 40 shells, 4.2 and 5.9, wounded three men and killed both the C.O.’s horses, ‘Silvertail’ and ‘Baby’|A record of the 1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., during the War, 1914-1919<ref name="leicestershire">{{Cite web | title = Monchy Au Bois | work = British Isle Genealogy | url = http://www.bigenealogy.com/leicestershire/monchy_au_bois.htm | accessdate = 12 November 2009}}</ref>}}



==See also==
{{portal|Novels}}
* [[Classical conditioning]]
* [[Propaganda]]
* [[Struggle session]]
* [[Enemy of the people]]
* [[Pep Rally]]

==References==
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[[Category:Propaganda in the United Kingdom]]
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