The Minor Prophets

Okay. I'm full of questions lately with no answers. Here is another one to ponder:

If you had to describe the majority of the prophets in the Bible with one or two words what would you choose and why?

Megan said intense. Loren said desperate.

What leads a man to cast down fire on the priests of Baal and then run away ask God to let Him die? What state is that person's heart?

"Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
1Kings 19:1-4