The Grudge

The most general and cohesive reading I can give to The Grudge is the grudge one could unwittingly have toward the existence of others, even more pronounced when the other emerges an inhabits your OWN being 'unable to forgive your scarlet letterman'. This may be someone who gives you a heads up. It progressively rears its head on you, the grudge, and then you realize you are begrudging others for inhabiting their OWN being. The realization that one can slink into this is cause for self-reproach, moreover. That others possess content identical to your own makes you not only question the grounds for your own self-identity but strikes at something even more fundamental: do I really OWN anything I think? Is it a product of my own adeptness or more likely do things just occur to me in too similar a character as it does for all if not many other beings. He can realize he is being seen as someone with a grudge. Trying to cling to some last shred of something substantial or all his own, he 'wears his crown of negativity'. Get an image of Jughead's paper tapped crown... 'yes, and?' So he sets out provisionally, awkwardly and with abandon to reconstruct his character (which can never be anything more than a self-percept) about this grudge. It doesn't seem to be a move made to advance ground with any scarlet lettermen, it is a move made in last dash for an inward sense of peace. Hang on or be humbled again, likely what should be inferred from the scarlet letterman's prompt. I have read briefly that Saturn is usually evoked as a symbol for the epithets 'the opportune moment for harvesting from life' and 'the death of old ways'. Also, more abstract and generally designated meanings of authority, steadiness, construction, integrity. So, yes the grudge could be spawned from someone keeping you in check. What spins the grudge tighter is your lacking the grounds to utterly hate them based on a smooth, kindred, genuine delivery they made for you, with whatever that sentiment is. Some specific species of love. The grudge and concomitant self-loathing is escaped from temporarily by denying of others their real inhabited being, 'justify denials', which is to go back to a state before the letterman spoke, where the now grudge-holding was conceiving himself or simply reclining into the self-percept of being the master of the show. While this might have something to offer in other spheres, when it enters into issues concerning realizing or evoking, if you are an idealist, the presence of others it can cause some problems. While it may be true of you it is just as well true of the other, in like character. The letterman called your behavior, preconscious or calculated, into the open maybe. Cause for soreness or indignation, seems to be the case in The Grudge. This is not someone with any immediate desire to seek a sort of penance. A sort of penance is the way out. Perhaps the grudge has an inherent recursive structure, meaning it rebounds or linearly, thought about the character of the grudge causes its character to get more pronounced. One has met a blockade which may be rerouted or assuaged with some ol' integral penance: acknowledgement of self-deceiving behavior and appropriate recompense in a spirit of seriousness. The fact that the grudge holder can understand himself to be occupying this pending position incites them to resign themselves to smoldering in fecklessness.