on the pleasure of hating william hazlitt sana arastu alex dale sandy aguirre
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ON THE PLEASURE OF HATING
William Hazlitt
Sana ArastuAlex DaleSandy Aguirre
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830)
Son of a Unitarian Minister • Traveled a lot
Obtained most of his views from his father
Philosopher, Artist, Poet, Journalist, and Writer
Key figure in Romanticism
Stressed the importance of feelings
Political infatuation with Napoleon
Very Controversial
Very vocal and powerful speaker
SUMMARY
Hazlitt starts off talking about spider
Makes hate seem animalistic
Hate is a human necessity
Man is a Strange being
Hate is a poisonous mineral
Hate spawns from our own insecurities
Friendships
People get tired of almost everything
Sick of his old opinions
Reason why he hates himself
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
-Diction
-Syntax
-Metaphors/similes
-Imagery
-tone
TONE/STYLE/SYNTAX
-Over all his style is very old fashioned
-Verbose, long sentence structures, big fancy
words
-We, us, ourselves, our
-He uses lots of exclamation points
Tone: Knowledgeable, pompous, bombastic
SIGNIFICANT QUOTES
“He hobbles awkwardly towards me” (Hazlitt, 189)
“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats
into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling
spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for
carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands; it
leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness,
and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over
the actions and motives of others” (Hazlitt, 192)
SIGNIFICANT QUOTES
“ We serve up a course of anecdotes, traits, masterstrokes
of character, and cut and hack at them till we are weary.”
(Hazlitt, 194)
“It opens, and a young female head looks from it; a child,
yet woman grown; with an air of rustic innocence and the
graces of a princess, her eyes like those of doves, the lips
about to open, a smile of pleasure dimpling the whole face,
the jewels sparkling in her crisped hair, her youthful shape
compressed in a rich antique dress” (Hazlitt, 196)
SIGNIFICANT QUOTES
Without something to hate, we should lose the very
spring of thought and action, Life would turn to a
stagnant pool, were it not ruffled by the jarring
interests, the unruly passions, of men.” (Hazlitt, 190)
ETHOS
Ethos:• Appeals to ethos when referring back to
Shakespeare, Chaucer, Spenser, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford and other famous and well known writers.
• Explains how he hates “the very name of Fame and Genius, when works [from those authors] are “gone into the wastes of time”(195) and how now people rather read books that mean nothing.
PATHOS
Appeals to pathos with his vivid and emotional language
appeals to readers emotions when referring to horrible actions
that are done day to day by humans or any life form.• “Animals torment and worry one another without mercy: children
kill flies for sport: ever one reads the accidents and offences in a newspaper as the cream of the jest: a whole town runs to be present at a fire, and the spectator by no means exults to see it extinguished.”
pg. 190 : explains pure good , pain, love• pure good in how it grows insipid or bland• pain in how there is never enough of it; bittersweet• Love turns with indulgence then ends up in disgust
HAZLITT’S EFFECTIVENESS
Found it effective
Reaches to the readers with strong passion towards
what he believes. ( use of exclamation points all the time )• “It is because pleasure asks a greater effort of the mind
to support it than pain; and we turn after a little idle dalliance from what we love to what we hate!”
Use of literary devices (metaphors and similes) to
compare his thoughts to everyday things.• Compares life to “stagnant pool”
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