Themes -- Adversarial Relations
Adversarial Relations: Involving motifs of antagonism, hatred, revenge; the definition of one's self by one's opposite.
Themes:
Benevolence
Frames on Adversarial Relations:
Letter 1.4
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("Courage")
Letter 2.4
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("What a noble fellow!")
Letter 4.7
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("But half made up") [1831 only]
Letter 4.8
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("Nature") [1818 only]
Letter 4.8
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("Nature") [1831 only]
1.1.6
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("My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement") [1831 only]
1.2.7
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("A palpable enemy") [1831 only]
1.4.6
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("My enemy")
1.6.3
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("Not with hatred for your enemies")
1.6.7
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("This noble war in the sky")
1.6.8
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("A depraved wretch")
1.6.8
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("My own spirit")
1.7.3
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("I have no enemy on earth")
1.7.7
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("Join with my enemies")
2.1.2
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("All bounds of moderation")
2.1.2
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("I ardently wished to extinguish that life")
2.1.3
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("I could not consent to the death")
2.1.3
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("When falsehood can look so like the truth")
2.1.4
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("Revenge")
2.2.3
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("Anger and hatred")
2.2.5
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("Enemies")
2.2.5
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("I will not be tempted")
2.2.6
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("Cursed (although I curse myself)")
2.5.6
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("Mutual bonds")
2.7.10
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("In a transport of fury")
2.8.1
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("I declared everlasting war ... me")
2.8.6
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("Enkindled")
2.8.7
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("I vowed eternal hatred ... mankind")
2.8.8
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("A deep and deadly revenge")
2.8.9
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("Hellish triumph")
2.9.2
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("I will cause fear")
3.3.2
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("A howl of devilish terror and revenge")
3.3.3
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("I am your master")
3.3.4
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("The hour ... arrived")
3.3.4
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("Revenge remains ... food")
3.6.1
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("Until my own life, or that of my adversary, were")
3.6.5
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("A maddening rage")
3.6.8
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("The devouring and only passion of my soul")
3.7.1
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("Voluntary thought")
3.7.1
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("It modelled my feelings")
3.7.1
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("My fiendish enemy.")
3.7.2
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("My vow was heard, and that I was reserved for vengeance")
3.7.5
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("Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives")
3.7.5
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("Again do I vow vengeance")
3.7.5
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("Everlasting hatred")
Walton 3
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("I have longed for a friend")
Walton 4
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("Such is not my destiny")
Walton 7
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("In justice, or even in possibility")
Walton 9
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("Mine is assigned to me by heaven")
Walton 10
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("Miserable himself, that he may render no other wretched")
Walton 13
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("It did not endure the violence of the change without torture")
Walton 14
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("I was the slave, not the master")
Walton 17
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("My agony was still superior to thine")
