Monday, April 29, 2013

East of Eden: Love & Hate


Love & Hate
Love is the sincere affection one has for someone else, its a feeling of safeness which complements one's life. Love is the need to take care for another and expect nothing in return. The perspective of a pure soul who gives unconditional sincerity to something or someone. For example the affection Adam feels for Alice, his step mother which is a pure love do to the kind feelings he had and how he would leave anonymous surprise gifts for her expecting nothing but her happiness. In the other hand we encounter hate that feeling of envy and  resentment. Hate can be interpreted in various ways such as rejection or dislike of something or someone. Charles which at some point is considered the first antagonist strongly envies his brother Adam at the beginning of the novel because he has most of his father attention which he "hates". Though later when Charles suspects of his father to be dishonest and tells Adam, Adam immediately denies it, but  the narrator tells the reader that the real love always suspects, which inclines the reader to believe Adam does not love Cyrus, their father as much as Charles does because it is even revealed that he never really loved his father but instead feared him and that's why his admiration developed with irony and hate. (pg.64)

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