The Two
Minutes Hate is a daily exercise that the Party members participate in during the middle of
their workday. The Party members sit in rows of chairs facing a telescreen, where a hideous
grinding sound blares from the speakers as Emmanuel Goldstein's face flashes sporadically onto
the screen. Goldstein then begins to deliver a "venomous" attack on the Party as he
denounces Big Brother and overexaggerates claims about Oceania's regime that are obviously
false. The images of the Eurasian army are then projected onto the screen with Goldsteins
bleating voice in the background.
The Party members are worked into a frenzy
and begin yelling, cursing, and spitting at the telescreen. Their repressed feelings and
emotions are directed towards Big Brother's enemies, which are projected onto the
telescreen.even recalls seeing a coworker throw a Newspeak dictionary at Goldstein's face. At
theof the Two Minutes Hate, Goldstein's voice changes into the sound of a sheeps bleat before
his face transforms into the image of a Eurasian soldier shooting a machine gun directly at the
audience. Then, the hostile figure melts into the image of Big Brother, who offers a few words
of encouragement to the audience before the Party's slogan flashes onto the
screen.
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