"On the Pleasure Of Hating"

Hazlit's "On the Pleasure of Hating" makes a point out of saying that we hate out of boredom, a will for variety, and delight in being michievious. He uses half a paragraph for examples ofpeople taking sport in "hateful" activities to draw analogies to the point he's trying to get across (as bystanders or participants) ex. id killing fly, men assemle eargerly to watch tragedy, etc.) During the piece he uses lots of exclamation points to make it seem as though he's permaently yelling to get his point accross (he's passionate about his beliefs)
"The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others." This quote is significant because it's references the title and seems like a second thesis. Hazlit also uses very powerful words and large big words (it makes it seem like he's "spitting fire" with a "silvr tongue").
Hazlit uses an extended metaphor, hating a spider, to symbolize the hatred for a person. He personifies the spider by giving it human qualities (a personality of being afraid) and refers to it as a person.