Within “The Pleasure Of Hating”, Hazlitt imbedded a lot of persuasive writing which had do be looked into deeply to be discovered. Hazlitt readers may not know or realise how persuasive Hazlitt is being within the text. I will now analyse the areas of persuasion of which Hazlitt has Imbedded.

Hazlitt uses personal experiences of what happened in a spider encounter, and the actions taken. The anecdote at the beginning of the story, allows the reader to trust that Hazlitt knows what he is talking about, as he speaks from personal experience. Unfortunately that isn’t how Hazlitt persuades the reader but how Hazlitt makes persuasion easier upon the reader. Hazlitt then inputs the sentence “but I hate every sight of them”, that sentence was an extremely smart way of asking for the readers opinion. A rhetorical question then occurs, for example, do I hate spiders? The next thing that would pop into the readers head must be, I also hate them or I quite like spiders. If you are a reader who also hates spiders, that was Hazlitt’s way of bringing you onto level terms. So now you are in the same position as Hazlitt, by also hating spiders. It also influences the reader because due to Hazlitt’s anecdote in the beginning your opinion on “hating” spiders will be firm due to Hazlitt clever technique of persuading you into also hating spiders with him. This is extremely effective but why? Hazlitt has now made a bond with the reader, Hazlitt and the reader has now got something in common. This will now entice the reader to continue reading as Hazlitt and the reader are so alike. This shows and tells the reader that Hazlitt’s interests are your interests so therefore there is a common denominator. The bond is made and that is extremely effective in persuasive text.

Persuasion text is not only a way in convincing you to believe in something, but also convincing you to agree with something. Within the text Hazlitt tries to teach and tell us that hating is not such a bad thing. In fact “without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.” Expanding on that, hate is a great way to differentiate, your feeling to someone or something, without hate humans cannot work the way they do. Some humans may not move on to a better job due to not hating there jobs. Some humans may have an awful boss, but can’t hate them. Hatred is not such a bad thing but it is the way it is used and made to cause someone to act to another. Without hate we cannot think the way we do as everything will just be accepted, many opinionated pieces may not have existed, Wars and historical landmarks may not have been built because the hatred towards other countries may not have existed. Racism may not have existed. Without hate the human being and life would be completely basic. Looking deeply into this Hazlitt is trying to persuade and tell the reader, if they thought otherwise that “hate”, is actually not a bad thing. This is extremely effective because it changes the view of a reader and is a very good persuasive text. This can now teach the average or above and below average human, in there daily lives that hating isn’t so bad.

Hazlitt then within, “The Pleasure Of Hating”, then continues to be persuasive using intelligent techniques to disguise it. Hazlitt then imbeds the quotation “Do we not see this principle at work everywhere?” This quotation is a quotation which persuades you into agreement. He compares it to people’s everyday life, and asks them to agree. In life conversations occur many times about problems and stresses. To compare Hate to work. It relates because at work there are a lot of cases where, people dislike there co workers. This essay influences the reader as in current paragraphs I have mentioned, to know that hating isn’t bad. Hazlitt comparing to everyday live is using and anecdote’s technique, as instead of telling you about his experiences, he is asking for the readers life and experiences. “Do we not see the principle at work everywhere” compares to a persons every day life. That influences the reader as because the quotation compares to every day life, that the reader may relate to. That seeks the influence of the reader as it may persuade them to do things a different way as they can relate, so Hazlitt’s persuasion in also advise.

Hazlitt is admitting that he is not an advisor but is also taking his own advice. Hazlitt is not trying to make it seem as if he is the perfect human being, but is trying to show the reader and himself, ways to be a better one. His advise is not criticism. Hazlitt writes like a perfectly humble man, but himself he has got a bad temper. “They might say this is owing to my bad temper” shows that himself also had a bad temper, rage and a bit of hate in him. That is extremely persuasive to take his advice because he shows us that he is not perfect. It shows he can admit things without shame, as he himself went through what an average human, and the reader has gone through. Hazlitt just by using that sentence within the text, convinced and influences the reader to take his advice, as he was once the opposite of what he writes about, the perfect human. This Hazlitt technique was very smart but goes unnoticed, that sentence influenced us as now we know the past that he came from. He is not criticising everyone that has a bit of hatred in them, but is telling them the good and bad parts of the hatred. It can also be advise on how to use the hatred. So Hazlitt is showing people that he has a bad past, due to him admitting his background, we understand that he is just like us, so his advice is very helpful as his advice may help us the way it helped him to become an excellent writer. The thing most appreciated by the reader is Hazlitt’s honesty, it backs up everything that Hazlitt has been completely honest throughout the whole text. That quotation is very important.

This is the way that this essay seeks to influence the reader, and that is also the areas of the text are these techniques likely to be most affective.