Anger

Anger

See also Exasperation, Irascibility, Ranting.

Allecto

one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]

Almeira

scorned woman like whom “hell hath no fury.” [Br. Drama: The Mourning Bride]

Belinda

furious over loss of lock of hair. [Br. Lit.: Rape of the Lock]

Bernardo

enraged that member of a rival street-gang is making advances to his sister. [Am. Musical: West Side Story]

Brunhild

furiously vengeful concerning Kriemhild’s accusations of promiscuity. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied]

Erinyes

(the Furies) angry and avenging deities who pursue evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 347]

Fudd, Elmer

hapless man seethes over Bugs Bunny’s antics. [Comics: “Bugs Bunny” in Horn, 140]

Hera

(Rom. Juno) angry at Zeus’s illicit sexual pleasure. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 563]

Herod

angry at wise men’s disobedience, orders slaughter of male infants. [N.T.: Matthew 2:16–17]

Hulk, the

character whose anger transforms him into monster. [Comics: Horn, 324–325]

Megaera

one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]

Nemesis

goddess of vengeance. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 173]

Oronte

takes offense at Alceste’s criticism of sonnet. [Fr. Lit.: The Misanthrope]

Othello

smothers wife, Desdemona, in paroxysm of rage over her suspected adultery. [Br. Lit.: Othello]

Rumpelstiltskin

stamps ground in rage over lass’s discovery of his name. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Rumpelstiltskin]

Tisiphone

one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]

Volumnia

“in anger, Junolike.” [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus]

whin

indicates fury. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]