Two Minute Hate Analysis

These three phrases are the slogans of the Party, and control Winston Smith’s entire life. The ambiguous figure of Big Brother sees all, hears all, and controls all, even things you may not even think it possible to manipulate. Using the image of Big Brother, the government brainwashes and conditions its population. It is the year 1984, in the country of Oceania, and Winston’s secret resentment for the party has grown into the urge to rebel which he cannot deny. The day he makes this distinction in his mind is the day he signs his death warrant. Everyone who dares commit a crime against the party, even one of thought is eventually “vaporized.” The only question is, when will they come for him? Utilizing the Party’s invented language of Newspeak,

It is an odd mixture of feelings from Winston’s point of view, but as the seconds tick by, one can see the outcome is identical for each person. One has no choice but to be swept up in the mass of hate surrounding them. It is an inherent facet of humanity that each person will have, somewhere inside of themselves, untamed aggression, hostility, anger and hate. This is true simply because everyone is capable of hating, and when they are presented with something that sets off the reaction of violence, they will feel it and act upon it. Everyone who is not a member of the inner party has an unsatisfactory life. The way Winston describes his clothes, his food and his house, it is clear that the government leaves them to languish within their daily lives. The setting is in a time before every person’s vocabulary is exclusively limited to Newspeak, and because they are still capable of forming thought in Oldspeak, room is left for dissent among the people. The purpose of the Two Minute Hate is clear: Direct everyone’s anger and aggression towards one central figure, who is the opposite of Big Brother. Blame Goldstein for the food rations, not the Party. Goldstein is the reason for all things bad in this world; Big Brother is to be loved, for he is all things

Winston feels fear for being caught by the party. He knows he will eventually be caught committing a crime by the Thought Police, arrested, and killed; he recognizes and, to a point, accepts his fate (Good 54). “He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step… He wrote, ‘Thoughtcrime does not entail death: Thoughtcrime IS death.’” (Orwell 19). Yet when he hears an unexpected knock at his door while writing in his illegitimate journal, his panic sets in. “Already! He sat as still, in the futile hope that whoever it was might go away… His heart was thumping like a drum, but his face, from long habit, was probably expressionless.” (Orwell 20). Winston is afraid of what will happen to him, although he is willing to let it happen. Even so, he has no possible way to prepare for what happens in Room 101. When Room 101 is first brought to Winston’s, and every other prisoner in the holding cell’s attention, a fellow prisoner is called out of the cell and sentenced there. Before he is forcibly removed he begs and pleads that he not be sent to room 101, which leads Winston to wonder what is in the room (236). Most humans believe there is nothing worse than death. Although it is mostly a matter of opinion, Winston comes to find this is not true. He is