How can it be possible to love and hate at the same time? Or can there be only a feeling of love or hate? While we generally use these terms towards relationships, they are usually found in our response to inanimate objects. Although one might stare at first towards my questions and ponder how can someone love and hate at the same time. For me, it has been an interesting journey to discover. So stay tuned as this journey begins by first comparing these amazing emotions together.
There are even skeptics that would suggest that dogs and cats display a capacity to love and hate. My thoughts regarding this theory would be that it is merely a display of loyalty and respect; however, there are moments that one may get a sense of deep love while gazing into the eyes of their pet. This is an interesting topic but as much as one may love their pet, my desire here is to stroll through the human aspect of love and hate. Please keep in
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From the Fall of Man, one gets a sense that hate is a very easy and normal part of our lives. One is taught to hate from the beginning of life while love is learned as we grow. Hate has been seen to be a negative emotion while love is a most definite positive emotion. Hate can easily affect our health in a destructive manner causing high blood pressure and ulcers to name a few while love seems to affect the body by reducing stress levels and even depression. Hate can cause a person to want to take the life of another while love’s desire is to rescue or preserve life. Hate has often been found to be a safe zone for many people because they are free to act as they please while love brings us out of our comfort zone realizing our words and actions can cause harm. It has been quoted, “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All the good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to
Andrew Sullivan suggests the origins of hate to be evolutionary in his article, “What’s So Bad about Hate?” If hate really is “hard wired,” then that would mean all of the hubbub about obliterating hate is just about as useless as trying to obliterate opposable thumbs. Sullivan’s statement carries so much meaning because it illustrates such a nasty concept with an air of tolerance that is rarely ever considered. He proposes that instead of fighting hate, we accept hate for what it is: an integral part of the human experience. Instead of fighting, we should focus our energy on tolerating hate, and through toleration we can achieve much more than we ever did by trying to combat our very nature.
In the novella Anthem, this can be seen building up in the main character, Equality. As the story progresses, you can see Equality 7-2521, harbour a growing hatred for his fellow brothers. When Equality goes to show his creation to the world council, they reject his idea and shun him, possibly generating that feeling of rage. After Equality gets his idea rejected, he seems to now show the malice that was pushed away all of his life spent in the Community. The novella Anthem shows us that even though hate is a bad emotion, keeping all of those negative feelings felt towards others locked away can expand them and make them even worse.
Love is considered a wonderful connection between two people that brings happiness to many. Although without hate no one would realize how marvelous love truly is. Does this mean hate is more powerful than love throughout the world? Hate overpowers love because there may be so much love in this world, but with the tiniest bit of hate everything could be changed in a split second. Hate is an indestructible power that will demolish anything in its way, like it did in The Coffin Quilt, by Ann Rinaldi. Roseanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield’s love was simply not powerful enough to defeat the hate that came along with the love.
An important element that is displayed in both love and hate is motivation. An example of this is portrayed in “A Note on My Son’s Face,” as the author states, “I wanted that face to die, to be reborn in the face of a white child” (35,36). This line displays a level of prejudice towards what is hers. Derricotte battles intense feelings of wanting a white looking child amongst a world where not being grateful for what she has is seen as hatred towards her son. She looks at the face of her black child and is filled with animosity for what he looks like and what he will become. This is where the motivational factor comes into play, and where the lines of love and hate really become blurred. Does she hate her child because of how he looks? or Does she love her child because she wants him to become better than what he is destined for? She is motivated by love to want him to become better than what she believes is possible for him, yet she displays hate in the sense that she is hurting the child for what he is, and also for what he has no control over. According to Rempel this grandmother is displaying both intense feelings of love and hate. Loving what is hers, but hating what it will become. Therefore, this poem supports the theory that love and hate are
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.
love in the context of being a device that is used to protect and to care for people
that lies within a person is good and love, others think evil and hate. No matter how much a
In the same way as love, hatred requires a certain intimacy between two people. A relationship cannot consist of either love or hate without there first being a close relationship between two individuals. Hawthorne explains that for these emotions to exist, “each, in its utmost development, requires a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge” (Hawthorne 246). In order for either of these emotions to be conceived within an individual, the person must first make an effort to acquire a deep understanding of the other person. It is necessary to have a familiarity with someone else’s character in order to either love or hate them, and it is impossible to become close to som...
Throughout history, the powers of love and hate have constantly been engaged in a battle for superiority. Time and time again, love has proven to be stronger than hate, and has been able to overcome all of the obstacles that have stood in the way from it reaching its goal. On certain occasions, though, hate has been a viable foe and defeated love when they have clashed. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens presents several different power struggles between love and hate.
such a love can arise out of hatred and then triumph over it in death,
... others more easily (McDougal). Hate itself takes up a lot of energy. All that wasted energy could be channeled into other areas that are more rewarding such as helping others.
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/) Love and hate are both very common obsessions. Obsession is one of the more general themes of these short stories, but the theme can be taken a step further and become more specific. There are multiple different themes for Poe’s works. Love and hate is one of these themes and is also the theme that is related to both “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Both stories use the elements of death, darkness, horror, coldness, dampness, fear, obscurity, and mystery to get the point and theme across. Obsession is shown in “The Tell Tale Heart” by the obsession with the eye even after the narrator killed the old man. Obsession is shown in “The Cask of Amontillado” with Montresor’s obsession with getting back at Fortunato. Another way obsession is shown is in way Montresor’s holds a grudge on Fortunato just because he insulted him once. Everything Edgar Allan Poe has written in these short stories was put there for a reason. So every sign that points towards the theme being love and hate was put there to show
Someone once said, “No one can hate more than someone who used to love you”. In other words, hate comes from love. We hate the ones we once use to love, and that same love can be shifted towards hate due rejections of acceptance. Some say that hate is natural and other says it is taught. Though out the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, we see the same love and hate relationship between the creature and victor. Shelley provides numerical examples in which we see that the creature learns to hate because of Victor. Victor and the creature did not get along because Victor sees the creature as “The other” therefore the creature begins to view himself as such and begins to hate.
There is many types of love, but the one that we all feel the most is the one we have for our close ones, pets, and even objects. That feeling is love. Love can be felt in a variety of ways; it may take your life, or it can just be a little crush. It is different for everyone. There is people who fall in and out of love on a daily basis, and there are those who look for love for an eternity. Love is not just for us people, it is for everyone and everything around us. We love anything we want to, but it is a way of expressing it where we show who we are.
Great feelings like partnership, remembrance, and parenthood can accompany love, but feelings like heartbreak, torment, and grief can also accompany love. “A strong affection for another” is not an all-encompassing definition for love. Love is happiness and fairytales but is also pain and sadness. No dictionary could truly define human emotion, as words are to simple to convey the overlapping complexity of the feelings we experience. Love is what builds us up and what breaks us down, but most importantly, it is what makes us