For Wednesday, make sure you have read through page 103TWO MINUTES HATE: THERAPEUTIC GROUP COUNCILLING
Page 48 What in reality takes place in Nurse Ratchet's group sessions? What is the purpose?
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 must watch a film depicting The Party's enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them and the principles of democracy.
Orwell did not invent the term "Two minutes' hate"; it was already in use in the First World War. At that time, British writers satirised the German campaign of hatred against the English, and imagined a Prussian family sitting around the kitchen table having its "daily hate."
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".
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
How does one engender hate? Take a look at the following clip. What ostensibly is the objective of the narrator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkSzLZjJXgA
Keyana Coley
ReplyDeleteThe doctor doesn’t like Dick Boulton undermining his authority. The other men understand this so he is more open to talk to them about it than his wife. He feels that she is a woman and therefore wouldn’t understand what he's feeling so she lies to him. This shows male and feels male’s indifference to other genders. It also reflects a woman’s innocence, as she continues to ask questions thus he feels she’s a little naive. Furthermore the doctor’s wife who is a medical scientist lacks respect for her husband profession and the Doctor himself. The interaction between Nick's father and Dick reveals the importance of pride in male-male relationships. When the doctors decides to go hunting, where he can full express himself and find escape from his wife’s questions. Even after his mother calls him Nick also decides to go with his father.