Summary Of William Hazlitt's On The Pleasure Of Hatred

In the beginning the class we were assigned groups and as a whole we had to find the literal point or subject of the readings that were due for the day and relate them to identity, attitude, or prejudice. This was to allow us to prepare to write our second major essay we had for writing 1. We were assigned the Andrew Sullivan readings, “what’s so bad about hate?”. The short excerpt from the article stated various situations in which the actions were categorized as a regular crime or a hate crime. The author then continued to discuss how adding a hate crime just complicates the verdict because no one except the individual knows why they committed the crime. Throughout the reading as a group we categorized the reading as one of identity. Everyone

The strongest and most influential emotion, hate, can drive man to do horrendous acts. Such as, in Eliezer Wiesel's memoir Night, tells the story of the millions of death caused by the evil that controls man. Although Wiesel does not use the word “genocide,” his account of his experience shows that it was definitely genocide that he witnessed. To start off, classification,

The Holocaust is history’s most painful example of mass-hysteria. With half a race violently extinguished, Nazi Germany deliberately and horribly massacred millions and millions of Jews. The people of Germany were in an economic and social state of disparity, open to all options of self-sustainment. Living in depression made Germans vulnerable to Hitler and his Nazis. When presented with a solution to their hunger and struggle, they were eager at the opportunity to thrive at the expense of Jews. Like Abigail and her friends, the Germans were faced in a situation of ‘kill or be killed’. They had the option of personal consequence verses succeeding through blame and violence. Germany’s acts sent the whole world into chaos and sent several large countries to war into a hysteria Hitler not only supported but encouraged.

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when, “How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (Wiesel, 4). He was angry that innocent people were dying and getting killed. He was mad because of everything they were doing to the poor people. He couldn’t believe what was happening. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are Loss of Faith and Disbelief.

Hatred is an intense feeling of resentment that is usually mutual. Hatred can grow at a rapid pace, it is caused by feelings of disgust, anger, and disposition; however, hatred can be stopped when people stand up and do what is right. In “The Book Thief”, by Markus Zusak, if historical fiction that takes place in the 1940’s when WWII was in its prime it follows a young girl named Liesel who loathes a man named Hitler. Hate can be stopped when people work together for the greater good. Hatred can be stopped when people work to right the wrong they have done; to start,“He was a member of the Nazi Party, but he did not hate the Jews, or anyone else for that matter,”(Zusak, 40).

Have we ever witnessed a student receiving undeserved cruelty? Had we ever act upon it? Whether we have or not, try putting ourselves in that equation. Imagine getting verbally abused for no reason as we ponder to ourselves, “Why must this happen?” Unknowingly to us, our aggressor acts like this as a way to bring out their frustration out from upon their hidden suffering. To them, we are their only “rightful” outlet for this pain. With that perspective in mind, we must understand what human cruelty is. To sum it up, it is basically any harmful act committed by a human being. The intent of knowing this is that similar to our bully, there are numerous illustrations of such acts and worse in the categories of literature and real life. The objective of this paper is to display cases of human cruelty in the name of righteousness through pieces of work like “The Crucible” and “The Lowest Animal”, as well as a personal experience to demonstrate what we can learn from it.

People have made many decisions throughout history that have affected others in different ways. We have had a variety of positive ones, but what about all of the negative ones too? A very life changing decision and one that has affected millions over the years and still does today are genocides. Because of differences and the want to be on top, people will do anything to get there, even if it includes the most violent means. At the root of all genocides lie three main factors which includes intolerance, racism, and hatred between two groups. They are cruel acts of violence that will continue to happen if we don’t take charge and make a difference.

As most people would agree, the 20th century contained some of the bloodiest and most gruesome events ever recorded in history. Why do words such as Hiroshima, Rwanda, The Final Solution, A Great Leap Forward, The Great Purge and so many more spark such vivid images of blood, torture and murder in our minds? And despite those horrific images, what is it that causes us humans time and time again to commit such crimes against humanity? Those are the kinds of questions Jonathan Glover, a critically acclaimed ethics philosopher, tries to answer in the book he had spent over ten years writing, Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century. Through Humanity Glover tries to answer those questions in a way which will give a solution as how we can

Humans are complex and unpredictable creatures that can instantly change from an angel to a demon. They have the power to change the world and go beyond. However, there are many times in history where humanity had destroyed its environment and even itself. This was true during the Holocaust that started in 1933 to 1945. When the Nazi party rose to power in 1933, they spread propagandas about the natures of Jews, including that they’re sub-humans and even animals. Hitler believed that the Jews were taking up space for the superior race, the Aryans. In order make room for them, he implemented a plan called the “Final Solution”. In the time span of this horrific event, the USHMM predicted that up to 11 million people were brutally slaughtered. Not only did it include Jews, but Soviet civilians and P.O.W., non-Jewish Polish civilians, Serbian civilians, people with disabilities, gypsies, Jehovah witnesses, homosexuals, and repeated criminal offenders. The Nazis used a variety of appalling methods to torture and massacre their victims. These included the famous gas chambers and furnaces, hospital experiments, and psychological abuse.

People throughout history have committed horrible crimes because they believed their cause to be just as the rest of the world watched on in horror. Some of these crimes became known as genocides. Genocides were acts of deliberate violence that killed thousands, or millions, of people based on the race, ethnicity, or religion. Its a term that was coined recently, but genocides like this have been happening since the beginning of time. There are articles that suggest the Neanderthals went extinct because of a mass genocide perpetrated by the Homo sapiens. It is a natural instinct for people to wipe out others they consider to be threatening, and unless these past crimes are remembered and spoken of, they will keep happening.

Walking briskly through the halls of school, a boy knocks into someone and their papers fall. Do you have the courage to stop to help them? Or do you keep following the mainstream flow of students through the corridors? Most importantly, does any of this really matter? The answer is, yes it does. As of right now, in 2016, according to CNN’s Genocide Tracker, “over 36.9 million people have died around the world due to genocide.” Genocide is defined most commonly as the systematic and purposeful extermination of a specific group due to race, religion, ethnicity, gender association, political affiliation, disabilities, and more. Mass killings have been happening as early as the 1700’s when the Chinese Manchu Qing Dynasty systematically killed the Dzungar Buddhist peoples. Since then, over 30 documented genocides and even more undocumented genocides have occurred. Knowing this awful fact, we must begin to look into what ways can humans yield psychological courage, to cease global genocides. From a psychological perspective, these mass killings make one wonder how a human could commit such sadistic and horrific crimes against other humans. The reason may be found in the psychology of why people fear, why people form groups, and why people are so willing to go along with the majority. In short, to battle genocides, society must not only understand the psychology behind fear, group mentality, and why people conform, but have the courage to break out of these psychological

We were all born to survive, not to oppress. But evil is born from the yearning to understand. This yearning to constantly understand has lead humans to always questions, sometimes never finding the answer. This lack of knowledge is quelled by the human belief in God. Believer or not, humanity has always had the need to be checked by a higher power. When a person feels that the higher power has failed them, a brute is born. When a human is left unchecked by a god or a psyche, complete madness can overtake them. Thus the creation of hatred. Hitler felt like the world had failed him and the Nazi people; he felt cheated. The world had turned its back on Hitler, and he would never forgive it again. To release all of his anger, Hitler needed a scapegoat: the Jews. How could the Jews become rich and prosper while Hitler and his fellow Germans starved? These questions probably raced through his head, and his hatred burned stronger and stronger, creating a brute of a man who would infect a desperate people with his radical

Have you ever thought what causes people to treat others horribly? Well, I’m here to tell you what I think. To me, people are mean usually because they don’t have a lot of confidence and self esteem, and making others feel the way they do, makes them feel more important. In this paper, I’m going to use two examples from the Holocaust and Secret Annex, and relate them to today’s society.

While studying genocides in class and having the opportunity to have an insight on twelve different genocides that have occurred in the world, I have learned a lot about what mankind is truly like. Disregarding race, gender, religion, and where we live, every human being is the same in regards of what drives them. Mankind is always after superiority over everyone else and after resources they don’t currently have. Due to this, conflicts arise which often lead to genocides and war.

Firstly, Hazlitt’s way of speaking supports the idea of hateful human tendencies in itself. He illustrates his perspective on pleasurable hating with a blunt, yet sophisticated tone, often utilizing a wry manner of speaking. He adorns his writing with vivid diction, using powerful words such as “barbarous” and “ennui.” Rhetorical questions are