Respond to the prompt with a Statement that you will expand upon and defend through the essay. Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation.
The excerpt below is from William Hazlitt’s “On the Pleasure of Hating” . Read the excerpt carefully. Then write an essay that argues your position on the value—if any—of hatred. Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action. Life would turn to a stagnant pool, were it not ruffled […]