Rage

two women exchange foul words to each other after one of them abruptly cut the other off to avoid other slow drivers. This is just one instant out of many that display road rage. How many times have you lost your temper behind the wheel? What about rude gestures to the car behind you? Within the last three decades, road rage has become “the” term for aggressive driving within various areas including: the media, policy making, and the world of science. The primary means of transportation in the…

Upon arriving at work, a woman notices her parking spot is occupied, and she knows that the car in her spot belongs to her boss. Irritated, she drives around the lot but their are no available spots. Ultimately, she pays for parking around the corner from work and has to walk in the cold to her building. For the remainder of the day she is tense, and ends up yelling at a co-worker. The next day, her boss is in her parking spot again, and the again the day fails to improve. The woman failed to…

Life is filled with ups and downs and sometimes we get caught up in this roller coaster. For some reason, especially with unfortunate events in life, we tend to react negatively towards the problem. I’m pretty sure most of us have our share of unfair consequences For example, getting rear ended in your new car, or getting a C on a test test you studied really hard the night before. These hapless events seem unfair and creates reactions towards life, making us wonder, what did we do to deserve…

Life is full of adversity, and at times it is full of hatred and anger. Everyone has a point in their life when they must decide whether rage and hate should cause them to take revenge or love one’s enemies. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel fights a battle between anger and hate towards his Nazi captors, and in doing this Eli develops the idea that wherever hate is, anger in there also. Night depicts that both hate and anger lead to each other, and everyone must choose to either act upon these…

The rage are the first words in book one of Homer’s Iliad, which is appropriately titled “The Rage of Achilles”. Rage makes up the theme of the Iliad and guides the path in which the epic follows. In the Iliad, there are specific instances in which Achilles’ shows himself to be selfish and immoral when he is angry. Two specific instances occur when Achilles refuses to fight in the war, and when he mistreats Hector’s body. Achilles’ selfish and immoral rage begins after Agamemnon demands that…

Rage, the most destructive and insatiable form of anger, is the very first word of the Iliad. From the beginning to nearly the end, the plot is driven by the rage of a variety of characters, but one stands far apart from the others. The focus of this paper will be primarily on the greatest rage of them all, Achilles’. His wrath, the embodiment of his rage, is said to be, “Black and murderous,” (1:2), from the very first page. While other men and even the Gods also have rage, Achilles’ inability…

However, this is Homer`s unique writing style, and he begin the novel ten years into the war because when the book was written most of the readers knew the back-story. The first word “Rage” contributes to the theme and sets the conflict for the whole novel. In the first lines, the reader is told that Achilles rage condemns warriors to death and their bodies are left for scavengers such as dogs and birds to eat. Next, Homer states “Zeus` will was done” meaning the whole war happened under the…

Rage as defined by Meriam Dictionary is a strong feeling of anger that is difficult to control. It is also defined as a sudden expression of violent anger. Medea is a tragic drama in which the protagonist, Medea, experiences much rage towards her husband Jason. The anger inside of her causes her to kill many people including Glauce, Creon, and her two sons. The Iliad is an epic poem in which the protagonist, Achilles, along with the antagonist, Hector, and Agamemnon experience much rage towards…

In book one of Iliad, Homer characterizes rage as disastrous and destructive. In the Greek world rage in a way happens when one party dishonors, shames or discredits another party. Homer gives a distinct explanation and uses different words to describe rage in book one. He reveals that Agamemnon’s bad leadership and rage towards the priest, Apollo, Achilles and Zeus causes the Achaeans to suffer a lot. Agamemnon first huge mistake came when he refused to give back the priest of Apollo’s daughter…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to add to previous research done on road rage. Road rage has been an increasing problem since the 1980s, when a police officer first coined the term (Sunrise Digest, 1988). Drivers can encounter certain road conditions that can cause road rage in people who misdirect their anger at others. Previous research has shown that road rage can be triggered by psychological or sociological aliments and substance abuse (Schafer, 2014; Wells-Parker, Ceminsky, Hallberg,…