The art of sound pictures (1930)

i88 THE ART OF SOUND PICTURES he is. Rage, therefore, may be used in story writing as a legitimate portion of the emotional behavior of the characters, but it must be limited to certain justifying circumstances, and the dominance element must be emphasized, while the compliance is carefully minimized and controlled. Rage, on the whole, is not nearly so unpleasant an emotion, either to the person experiencing it or to the observers, as is fear, chiefly because there is less conflict and reversal of elements in this emotion. Jealousy and Hatred. Like fear and rage, these emotions represent unnatural states of conflict between their constituent elements. Jealousy arises in any situation in which we experience a conflict between desire for an object or person and submission to a person who stands between ourselves and possession of the desired object. It may occur either in business situations or in appetitive rivalry, or in circumstances connected with alleged love affairs. We use the word alleged advisedly, because there can be no such thing as jealousy in true love. Love is the giving and not the taking. It is only when desire creeps into love that jealousy becomes possible. If we desire to possess the loved one for our own pleasure more than we wish to submit to the beloved’s happiness, then we have a situation in which jealousy arises. If we desire to possess a person, a thousand dollars, a house, or anything else whatsoever, and another person proves himself superior to ourselves in obtaining the desired object, we are confronted by two emotional possibilities, if we are normal. We must either submit to the person who has proved superior to ourselves, or we must feel desire for the object which we have lost. Jealousy