Love & Hate I never understood what people meant when they’d say “there’s a fine line between love and hate”. I was taught love was “good” and hate was “bad”. Someone even tried to convince me that hate doesn’t exist. But just like “good” and “bad”, one cannot exist without the other. I have asked myself so many times how two words, or better yet feelings, that are supposed to be antonyms, opposites, are so similar at the same time. After living a little and doing much research I think I finally understand both love and hate, as two individual concepts and as a unified concept.
What is love? What is that feeling that has inspired millions of songs and films? Well according to Oxford Dictionaries, love is ”an intense feeling of deep
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The Greek started breaking down love into four categories: “storge” was for family, “philia” was friendship, “eros” was for sexual and romantic love, and finally divine love was known as “agape”. For instance, you might love a friend (philia) but not quite be in love or feel physical attraction (eros) for them. Some researchers believe the theory that there is more than one type of love, while others say love is the same in all circumstances and relationships. In 1977, sociologist and activist John Lee separated love into six categories, 3 primary and 3 secondary. The primary types of love are eros (the erotic desire for an idealized other), ludus (the desire to have fun with each other), storge (the slow development of feeling beyond friendship into more of a kinship way). The secondary types of love are: mania (the jealous-obsessive love), agape (the purist, altruistic love) and pragma (a practical, convenient love). Hate has several causes. Some hate out of fear of “the other”, fear of anything different and unknown, while others hate out of fear of themselves, they project their insecurities onto the object of their hatred out of lack of self-compassion. Some might hate to fill a void, to avoid trying to find one’s identity. Societal and cultural factors play a huge part, we are taught to hate anyone different from us and all that that we don’t …show more content…
There aren’t specific hormones that activate when there’s hatred, but rather when the feelings associated with it kick in, like anger, fear and stress. The common hormone in all is adrenaline, that just like love, makes us act
Do you believe hate exists in our society today? I believe it does and I believe it did during Romeo and Juliet's time as well. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1597. Many theories have been made as to why the tragedy happened.
Love is a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, that ranges from deepest interpersonal affection to simple pleasure. This value is precious amongst all humans, it is what makes or breaks us. Not only does love remind us of a time that was relevant or memorable,
When I was in the 3rd grade I was walking to my classroom when someone said “I hate you!” I turned around and yelled at the person and said that was not very nice. The dictionary defines “hate” as “to dislike intensely or passionately;feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward.” (Dictionary.com). However, the social meaning is: when you dislike someone/something a lot. (1) The first time the word hate was used was mentioned in religious scriptures like, The Holy Bible, Dhammapada, and the Koran. When people use this word it is usually in a negative
Many situations have two sides: black or white. There are gray areas, but people often have trouble meeting in the middle of both extremes. Evil and hate are often associated with black; good and love are associated with white. Humans are dual creatures who cannot be one thing or the other; one cannot love without hating or be good without having evil desires.
By definition; love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love can be interrupted in many ways. Were we ever taught love or is it just a natural feeling towards a person? Some say you'll know the meaning of love when you fall in love, yet some don't believe in love at all.
If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.
There is a major difference in the definitions of love and hate. Some say that one can only have a single feeling for a person, and that it will never change. In order to love someone, one will have to be able to deal with things that one hates about them. Nobody is perfect, therefore there is not only one feeling for a person. In John Grisham’s Bleachers, there is a lot of controversy on Coach Eddie Rake. Rake was the head coach of the Messina Spartan Football Team and was highly valued to the people of the town. Some hated him for his harshness in practice, but later in life realized that “He was a great coach who built a great program and a great tradition and gave us all something great, something we will always cherish” (Grisham
We use hate to cover a large range of feelings and for different situations for example a child who "hates" vegetables or their homework, to a leader of a country who tries to expunge everyone of a certain religion or ethnicity. Hate can be associated with a wide range of emotions from fear to anger and involves the most primitive parts of the brain and the parts that develop latest in human evolution. Hate is the fuel behind the greatest disasters in the world. Take for example the Holocaust, that was all caused because of bigotry. So many people lost their lives that the holocaust has gone down as one of the worse attempts of genocide. Hate can bring out the absolute worst in a person as shown in the Holocaust. In the holocaust it also shows how hate can be a similar to a disease with how ordinary people were turn into blood-thirsty murderers. Most times hate is illogical and needs absolutely no proof of "why" it just is. Sometimes all hate needs is just a small passageway and it can break into a person and bring out the worst. Have you ever noticed how a person's slightest movements and mannerisms can cause you to just go crazy? That’s a perfect example of how hate is illogical. The person has not done a thing to you but you still feel as if they have and this tiny bit of hate can cause you to later look for little reasons to hate the person even more. Some believe the hate isn't inherently bad be used in the capacity of good as well as evil. Hate can actually be a
Love is a force that inspires us to feel more, do more, and sometimes sacrifice for the object of our attention. Poems, music, relationships are all written in the name of love. There are six kinds of love, according to the ancient Greeks:
Hatred is an extremely strong idea, it is the basis of all terrorism, war, and abuse. Hatred is obviously harmful in many ways; although, there are a multitude of things that can contradict the ideas and the acts of hatred. These dangerous ideas that are embedded in so many people's minds is why Amber Wielinski now tries to surround herself with love and things that are more powerful than hatred. Her traumatic experience with emotional abuse and depression revealed to her the importance of sharing love not hate.
Love is a feeling between two people that comes with lots of emotions, respect, commitment, trust, honesty, and many other values. In the story The Great
Hatred is a basic human emotion that everybody experiences in their day to day life. Everybody has one thing that gets under their skin, for me, that is when people lack empathy for others. Ironically, my disposition is in direct contrast with what what my “job” is now. Before my new “job”, I worked at a my family’s local bakery in Holland. Our bread was the cornerstone for community that was shared at parties and at family dinners. The bread was symbolic of our love for good food and sharing it with those that we love. The bread was shared in fellowship and was a staple of our community and our faith. That sense of community is gone. The only thing that is being feed is the crows that are feasting on the bodies of people I have to burn after
Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?
Love and hate are both very powerful emotions. The abundance one can feel inside when feeling them can be overwhelming at times. I think everyone can relate to the feeling when you love someone so much you would do anything and everything for them. We can also understand that feeling when you can’t even stand the thought of someone being in the same room of you. When we look at what emotion is more powerful, I think hate is stronger than love. The reason being is that love can quickly turn to hate, but hate doesn’t change to love very fast, if at all. I think Othello is a great example of this. His love for his wife, turned to hate so fast because he thought she was cheating on him. He murdered his wife in pure cold blood which shows how hate can be such a powerful emotion that it can actually cause someone to want to commit murder. The feeling of love and hate can change someone, and they both can be very powerful. However, I think that hate is an emotion unlike no other in which the feeling is very stable, in the since that it is very hard to change someone’s mind about you when they hate you.
How does one define hate? Webster defines hate as feeling hostility or animosity toward someone. Much like love, hatred is often blind, making people prone to believe things that aren’t true. Many fall victim to this reality, resulting in feelings of animosity and prejudice with little or nothing to back it up. This hatred often has to do with race, religion, gender, politics or sexual orientation. As you know one can’t just go and change his or her skin tone or gender. It isn’t as if one was asked to be white, black, Hispanic, Native American exc., nor female or male. This is just the way the person was born. Seeing it from this point of view I wonder why a person will choose to be a homosexual. It isn’t that the person was born this way,