1984

Part 1 Chapter 1

What is the Two Minutes Hate?

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This is two minutes where party members channel all their repressed emotions into hate of Goldstein and the forces they perceive are against BB. There is a lot of vitriol, screaming, and cursing at the screen.

"Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically."