Hatred

Hatred

Haughtiness (See ARROGANCE.)

Ahab, Captain

main character whose monomania is an expression of hatred. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick]

basil flower

flower representing hatred of the other sex. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 184]

Bigger Thomas

possesses a pathological hatred of white people. [Am. Lit.: Native Son, Magill I, 643–645]

Claggart

dislikes Billy Budd so that he falsely accuses him of fomenting mutiny. [Am. Lit: Herman Melville Billy Budd]

Esau

despised brother for stealing Isaac’s blessing. [O.T.: Genesis 27:41–42]

Eteocles and Polynices

their hatred extended to the funeral pyre where even their flames would not mingle. [Gk. Myth.: “The Seven Against Thebes” in Bénet, 917]

Feverel, Sir Austin

after wife left him, he became a woman-hater. [Br. Lit.: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel Magill I, 692–695]

Frithiof

kills proud sea-kings, saves a king and queen from death, and defeats her brothers in battle. [Nor. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 275]

Grimes, Peter

a community hounds a man to his death. [Br. Opera: Britten, Peter Grimes, Westerman, 536–539]

Medea

legendary sorceress whose hatred came of jealousy. [Gk. Myth.: Payton, 433]

St. John’s wort

indicates animosity. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]

Styx

river of aversion. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost]

Tulliver, Mr.

instructs children to despise Mr. Wakem. [Br. Lit.: The Mill on the Floss, Magill I, 593–595]