In five pages literature and life are considered in an examination of how obsessive love can escalate into destructive violence. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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in newspapers and on the covers of magazines on an almost weekly basis - with the most spectacular in recent memory involving former pro-football player O.J. Simpson - the concept
of obsessive love moving into violence and destruction has been around almost since the first Neanderthal walked the earth and killed his woman because he suspected she was sneaking around
behind his back. The comment that there is only a thin line between love and hate remains true. While the methods of
inflicting violence on perceived rejection have changed - guns werent around back in the stone age - the complex emotions behind the causes of obsessive love and resulting violent and
destructive hatred have not gone away with age. What, exactly, causes a love that is so powerful and all consuming to turn
into violent hatred at the moment of rejection? Ask Lorena Bobbit, whose reaction to her husbands philandering became so much fodder for late-night comedians for months on end. Or ask
Amy Fisher, the so-called "Long Island Lolita," who, when rejected by her married lover, ended up acting out her violent tendencies on her ex-lovers wife. Then, as mentioned above, there
was O.J. Simpson who, although proven innocent in a criminal court of law of his wifes murder, was well known for his jealous rages that sometimes ended up in violence
against his wife, Nicole. Then there are the stories that arent quite as well known, like the one of a rejected
man who, in revenge to the object of his obsession, began to drive off his ex-girlfriends lovers with physical threats, then proceeded to seduce all of her other girl friends,