Hate week

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Hate Week ( English hate week ) is the name of a propaganda event in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . The purpose of this form of hate propaganda is to increase hatred of the party's political opponent as much as possible, regardless of who the opponent is. The depiction of Hate Week is also part of the 1984 film adaptation .

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During a special hate week, the fictional state of Oceania changes its allies before the government spokesman has finished his sentence.

The posters against the previous enemy were described as the sabotage of a hate week by Emmanuel Goldstein and his supporters, torn down by the crowd and quickly replaced by new posters against the new enemy.

This shows how easily the party manages to control the feelings of its members. The simplicity of manipulation is also facilitated by the similarity of names of the enemy countries (East Asia and Eurasia).

As in the Two Minute Hate ritual, all residents of Oceania have to express their feelings to show that they are still on the side of Big Brother .

Hate Week is held in September. The event includes wax figures, military parades, speeches and lectures. New slogans are created and new songs made popular. The main song of the hate week is the hate song . A unit of the " Department of Fiction " was commissioned to fabricate atrocity reports in order to incite the people of Oceania so far that, if they had had the opportunity, they "without a doubt" would have "torn to pieces" captured enemy soldiers.

reception

The fictional concept of the hate week as a form of hate propaganda was often used for comparison with real attempts to demonize the political opponent.

Slavicist John Rodden, who studied Soviet literature, illustrated that Orwell's Hate Week resembles some of the later events of the Soviet Union against the United States.

Scott Boulding saw similarities with Stalin's attempts to replace religion with worship of the state.

In some cases, American representations of the Soviet Union were compared with Orwell, as well as other campaigns from the Cold War period and then against the respective changing foreign policy opponents.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven P. Dandaneau: Taking it big. Developing sociological consciousness in postmodern times . Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, California 2001, ISBN 0-7619-8703-7 , pp. 53 .
  2. ↑ Erika Gottlieb: Dystopian Fiction East and West. Universe of Terror and Trial . McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2001, ISBN 0-7735-6918-9 , pp. 86 ( books.google.com ).
  3. ^ John Rodden: Soviet Literary Policy, 1945-1989. Spring 1988 ( mmisi.org PDF).
  4. ^ Scott A. Boulding: The Road to Postmodernism Through Dystopia. May 15, 2009.
  5. ^ A. Palladin: THE US: INSTILLING HATRED. In: Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press. Volume 37, No. 37, October 9, 1985, p. 17 ( dlib.eastview.com ).
  6. ^ Richard Neville: Amerika psycho: behind Uncle Sam's mask of sanity. Ocean Press, 2003, p. 66.