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FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS 185
greater courage and bravery than his enemies had shown. The hero first feels keenly the danger with which he is threatened, and is at an absolutely low ebb of fate. He then drives the fear from his mind and proceeds to conquer the obstacle causing his emotion. A moral victory of this kind meets with great approval, especially if the accompanying action is vivid and vigorous.
Rage. This is a conflict emotion which, like fear, consists of a wrong relationship between compliance and dominance with respect to the purpose of action. Literary commentators and fiction writers have frequently pointed out the fact that there is a great similarity between the emotions of fear and rage. William James emphasized the fact that fear frequently turned into rage when all hope of escape was finally cut off. The cornered rat will fight and manifest all the symptoms of extreme rage. The sneak-thief, caught in robbery, frequently flies into a futile spasm of rage, during which he may shoot the person interfering with his activities.
There is here much more dominance, in proportion to compliance, than in the case of fear. But dominance is still controlled by forced compliance with an object which has threatened the experiencing person. When an individual discovers that escape from a threatening object is impossible, the total situation compels him to dominate the enemy by aggressive attack. The dominance thus aroused is vastly greater than before. In fact, the entire primitive dominance emotion is called into play, still controlled by the realization that defeat has already been inflicted by the opponent. This awareness of irretrievable defeat gives a bitterly thwarted and hopeless self-aban