Humans are, above anything else, sentimental creatures; babies know how to cry, smile, and laugh before they learn to speak and write. Prehistoric societies experienced these emotions before humans developed written language, and necessitated that words be made to encompass and express the various aspects of the emotional spectrum. Hate is one of the more intense emotions that humans experience, and formally, it is defined as “[a]n emotion of extreme dislike or aversion” or “(t)he object of hatred” (16) when it is used a noun, and as “[t]o hold in very strong dislike: to detest; to bear malice to”, generally regarded as “[t]he opposite of to love” (16). Various societies found the need to create a word that could represent this emotion, and within the English language,
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As a noun, hate first appeared as “hete” (16), and as a verb, hate manifested as “hatian” (9); with time, hete developed into hate “under the influence of the verb and perh[aps] of O[ld] N[orse], hatr” (16). In addition to developing words to represent this emotion of extreme dislike, various cultures also gave rise to literary works that feature it as a theme; because the concept hate represents is timeless and core to human nature, as a word, hate has remained relatively concrete throughout history. The play Othello by William Shakespeare includes the intricacies and effects of hate as an aspect of its storyline, and the word itself appears seven times in its final form of development. Roderigo, the catalyst of the plot and fool of the play, is the first character to use the word hate in Line 7 of Act I Scene 1, and it is used as a noun, in reference to Iago’s opinion of the title character, Othello. In this context, Shakespeare
As a noun, hate first appeared as “hete” (16), and as a verb, hate manifested as “hatian” (9); with time, hete developed into hate “under the influence of the verb and perh[aps] of O[ld] N[orse], hatr” (16). In addition to developing words to represent this emotion of extreme dislike, various cultures also gave rise to literary works that feature it as a theme; because the concept hate represents is timeless and core to human nature, as a word, hate has remained relatively concrete throughout history. The play Othello by William Shakespeare includes the intricacies and effects of hate as an aspect of its storyline, and the word itself appears seven times in its final form of development. Roderigo, the catalyst of the plot and fool of the play, is the first character to use the word hate in Line 7 of Act I Scene 1, and it is used as a noun, in reference to Iago’s opinion of the title character, Othello. In this context, Shakespeare