A very strong feeling of dislike, intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury. Is how Websters discribes the word Hate. Thurman gives proof of that definition in this chapter about hate. He uses stories and personal examples that provide us a picture in words of what hate means and how Jesus was totally against the hatred. He writes that hatred is death to the spirit and disintegration of ethical and moral values. Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression
Joseph Strorm is the character in the novel that has the greatest disliking toward blasphemies against his beliefs. He has very strong ideas of God and follows the rules of his religion in a fundamental, conservative way. Seemingly, he is insensitive to anybody who is not considered a norm by him and cares nothing about other’s situations. He shows his true feeling towards people when he says “ Pg 71.” Also, it shows Joseph is an unforgiving and insensitive person who puts value on his personal beliefs before the care of his family. He controls his followers with fear and gives strict guidelines to...
When an emotion is believed to embody all that brings bliss, serenity, effervescence, and even benevolence, although one may believe its encompassing nature to allow for generalizations and existence virtually everywhere, surprisingly, directly outside the area love covers lies the very antithesis of love: hate, which in all its forms, has the potential to bring pain and destruction. Is it not for this very reason, this confusion, that suicide bombings and other acts of violence and devastation are committed in the name of love? In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the reader experiences this tenuity that is the line separating love and hate in many different forms and on many different levelsto the extent that the line between the two begins to blur and become indistinguishable. Seen through Ruth's incestuous love, Milkman and Hagar's relationship, and Guitar's love for African-Americans, if love causes destruction, that emotion is not true love; in essence, such destructive qualities of "love" only transpire when the illusion of love is discovered and reality characterizes the emotion to be a parasite of love, such as obsession or infatuation, something that resembles love but merely inflicts pain on the lover.
I have always been of the belief that in order to truly love, hate must exist within the core of the relationship. Nowhere in modern fiction is this dictum examined more accurately than in the novel by James Cain, Mildred Pierce. Looking at the concept in a familial context, James Cain has created two well-developed characters, Mildred Pierce and her daughter, Veda, that not only emphasizes the nature of mother-daughter relationships, but looks at how love and hate permeates the very essence of the relationship. The Irish poet Thomas Moore once described the fascination of these violently fluctuating emotions, “When I loved you, I can’t but allow/ I had many an exquisite minute/ But the scorn that I feel for you now/ Hath even more luxury in it” (Tresidder 57).
Fear and hatred have a simple, yet sometimes illusive relationship. Numerous people, including Shakespeare, have defined this relationship to be that hatred originates from fear. In the first five chapters of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo’s seemingly unrelated fear of weakness generates his unequivocal hatred toward unfortunate recipients. Okonkwo has a “fear of failure and of weakness” (13), which is exemplified by his father who “was in fact a coward and could not bear the sight of blood” (6). This sufficiently explains Okonkwo’s deeper “fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father” (13). When trying to find the opposite of weakness to differentiate himself from his father, Okonkwo resolves “to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness” (13). Consequently, Okonkwo’s hatred of the various interpretations of weakness, failure, and anyone who embodies them signals his underlying fear that he may “be found to resemble his father” (13). Although not nearly as elusive, this relationship between fe...
Seneca who was a Roman philosopher between 4 B.C and 65 B.C has given his opinion about anger in his essay 'On Anger '. This essay will illustrate his views on anger by looking at his definition on anger, the discordances of anger with nature, the decision and causes to start anger, his argument on anger and the remedies of it.
A long-standing issue in America is racism with Caucasians historically being the dominant race. Although racism is not as severe of an issue as it was in the past, even today there is still a population of people, known as White Supremacists, that believe Christian Caucasians are supreme over all other collective groups. There are many White Supremacist groups, which have nuances among them. For example, some are politically focused trying to only have certain officials elected, while others are religiously focused trying to further their religious ideals. Some are even radical as well going so far as to harass and even murder those who are not like them. One of the groups focusing specifically on religion is the Aryan Nations. Aryan Nations, a religiously driven, American white supremacist group, perverts biblical text to rationalize their beliefs for themselves and recruitment of more members. Members of the Aryan Nations believe in racism, segregation, and have acted on their beliefs.
One is not healthy for a friendship or a relationship. The other could resort to racial slander in some way. One is healthy the other is wrong. They both can destroy a relationship. What is "they"? "They" are anger and prejudice, and with them relationships will never work out. In the novel, Ironman by Chris Crutcher, anger and prejudice are the most important subjects talked about and were shown to be bad for healthy relationships.
I accept Martin Luther King’s quote in that certain content stating “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”. While I do belive blind optimism is useless, in the way it was originally used as heartfelt deterrent to encourage people in a delicate social situation pertaining to racial equality, not to hate blindly against more hate was a useful statement that shows it self partially, positively supported in Yousafzai’s speech that is based heavily on fair education for woman in her land was a very true and inspiring statement. As evidence in Yousafzai’s speech, when talking about the Talib who shot her she stated that “Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stand in front
The play An Enemy of the People focuses on the truth and how different characters reveal their feelings about it. Each character is motivated by different things so act in a certain way. Therefore they end up in conflicts due to their opposing views about the truth of the Baths. For example, the Mayor acts the way he does because he’s motivated by money. Doctor Stockmann tries to expose the truth because of his concern of the public’s health and because he believes he’s doing the right thing. Katherine supports Doctor Stockmann because she’s motivated by family and loyalty towards her husband. As you can see, everyone’s motivated by different things that are important to them.
“I am Joe's Blood-Boiling Rage “ (96). Anger is one of the seven deadly sins which is defined by Christopher Marlowe in Doctor Faustus as, “I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother. I leapt out of a lion’s mouth when I was scarce an hour old, and ever since have run up and down the world with this case of rapiers, wounding myself when I could get none to fight withal. I was born in hell, and look to it, for some of you shall be my father” (Doctor Faustus 2. 1).
to lose his bearings, not merely as a critic of life, but even as a
For one Bendrix begins the book as a “Record of Hate” (1951, 1.I.1) for he “hated Henry – Hated his wife Sarah too” (1951, 1.I.1) yet he questions whether his “hatred is really as deficient as my love” (1951, 2.II.44) and later acknowledges that his “hate got mislaid” (1951, 4.I.107). For him it is merely the loss of love that creates what he perceives as hate, yet even this dissipates and is realised to merely be anger and unhappiness. For Sarah it leads her to hate herself as “a bitch and a fake” (1951, 3.II.75), who leads others to unhappiness and cannot herself face her true emotions. Love within the end of the affair seems to destroy the everyday Façade and leaves behind the worst parts of our personality’s for Bendrix it’s his jealous possessiveness for Sarah it is her lies. Yet one cannot hate without love as “hatred seems to operate the same glands as love” (1951, 1.III.19) an idea that explains Bendrix so well, as even in his hatred he is still
The denotation of the term “hatred” is “intense dislike or ill will” (Oxford Dictionaries). Commonly, the word is used to describe a dislike for an object or place. But, often times, it is used as an emotion or feeling. Contrary to common belief, “hate” is closely related to love or admiration. While they seem to be opposites, the extreme emotions are not opposite of the spectrum; they are more closely related than one chooses to grasp. The strong act of expressing “hatred” is an emotion that stems from the original, primary emotion of love. Hatred towards a person is a product of caring for him or her or caring for whoever was affected. The lack of understanding this concept often leads to misinterpretations of the emotion and can also cause “hatred” to be a term that is misjudged in the
Intolerance is something that everyone has to deal with; It is a nation-wide problem. There are many forms of intolerance and all of them lead to devastation. This is shown throughout history, literature and in personal events. We are the only ones who can stop it.
not a person to anger, as he is also shown to have an intense rage