In
the passage the author juxtaposes light and dark through the narration of the
lady. He compares light to love and
darkness to hate. The juxtaposition of
light and dark or love and hate, emphasizes the idea of these always being at
war with one another. The author writes
about the hate between the Fascists and the Rebels, and yet all the speaker wants
is just the light of the love in people.
Defending their hate against the Fascists, he says, “they hate only in
the name of darkness. We hate hate itself, and for this reason our hate is
better than theirs.”(38) If hate is
darkness and he hates hate itself, then the light is tainted by darkness. They are no longer full of love, but instead
that love is slowly being replaced by hate.
Thus, the narrator states, “We've got to become a little bit like them
in order to fight them so we become a little bit unlike ourselves.” (38) The light is starting to fade away, darkness
is taking over.
This seems to raise the question, "is it okay to hate if that which you hate is actually really evil?"
ReplyDeleteAlso, clarify what you mean by this: "The juxtaposition of light and dark or love and hate, emphasizes the idea of these always being at war with one another." Are light and dark/love and hate actually "at war" with each other? Perhaps there is a more sophisticated way to say this.
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