For example, in the short story,”Ambush” after Roger squirts Joey Bacon with water, Joey Bacon throws a rock at Roger causing him to get “Eighteen stitches and a mild concussion”(Woodward 1). Joey Bacon is shown agitated and hungry for revenge here which causes him to injure Roger with the rock. By looking at this, the common thing that come to mind is the yearning to get revenge on someone after you get irritated or disturbed. After reading the whole story, Bacon ends up dying as a hero, which means that wanting revenge is something any human wanted at one point, what the reader needs to understand from this is the short term consequences of wanting to make amends are big, therefore meaning everyone can be more rational when in these types of situations. Lemon Brown, a character in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” chose to risk his life in order to save his treasure by hurling “his body down the stairs at the men who had come to take his treasure”(Myers 4).…
In the tale of “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the reader finds two characters Montresor and Fortunato, who envy was the primary problem. Fortunato was a powerful wine taster. Fortunato is very proud of his ability to taste wine. (Which apparently adores,) so he cannot resist the invitation of his friend. Poe has an eloquent way of reproducing great literary elements in the story, the theme of deception and revenge, is justified with the use of Irony and symbolism.…
Someone once said,“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” It is said to mean revenge is best not given fresh but after enough time has passed so that the person will not see it coming. In the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, the count claims that his revenge is justified by God, but that does not necessarily mean that it really is. The sins he commits to get back at the ones who are so called responsible for his mistreatment and suffering in the Chateau D’If are not truly justified with God. The protagonist, Edmond Dantes, used this as his motivation along with that God was on his side through it all, but is he really?…
An old saying exclaims that “Patience is a virtue.” none more was that an example than in this story. Revenge may seem as an easy way to accomplish fortune and power, or in this case the hubris that exacerbates an untimely death. When enacted impulsively the behavior of revenge can come back as an emotion that traps and haunts your very being and…
Revenge is not always the answer and can turn into a bunch of people getting hurt or killed if handled the wrong way. Destruction is the result of revenge in the wrong hands. In the play, Hamlet, we see one of the motifs, revenge, result in tragedy and death. In the beginning of the play Hamlet sees a ghost of his father who has passed away.…
There are too many questions to be asked when planning a revenge or thinking about revenge and that was the exact questions that was asked in Hamlet that was written by William Shakespeare in 1600s. Revenge, according to DICTIONARY is “the act of inflicting hurt on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.” In Hamlet’s case, revenge was mandatory because of a promise he made to his murdered father’s ghost. Even though Hamlet was honoring his father by doing what the ghost of his father told him to do, revenge in a Biblical sense would have been a sin. However, seeking revenge out of family code of honor gave Hamlet moral justification in…
The act of revenge means to avenge oneself or another by retaliating in kind or degree. Many people seek revenge for a variety of different reasons. While some situations warrant vengeance, other times it is unnecessary or goes too far. Every person is not the same, so it varies from person to person what initiates the desire for revenge. In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, Fortunato wrongs his friend Montresor, the protagonist.…
Revenge is not deterrence, it doesn’t have a virtuous meaning behind it due to the fact it is more emotionally driven with no intention of justice. Revenge starts a never ending cycle that makes the possibility of reality abstract the deeper it travels. If revenge does nothing but drive a person to such a state that they cannot function properly, then revenge is a waste of…
Furthermore, this leads into the rationale of Justice. Justice is blind to the concept of “getting even”, while still maintaining a degree of fairness. While with Revenge, “As perverse as it may seem, there’s actual pleasure experienced in causing others to suffer for the hurt they’ve caused the avenger, or self-perceived…
Revenge is a dangerous game to play; it takes over the mind and often blinds one from seeing the big picture. In life, there is more than meets the eye, we are often distracted by our minds we miss out on the overall view, as the imperfect human beings we are we let our emotions take over. We have to teach ourselves to stop, and think, to look at the big picture and see what is really going on around us. There are so many things in our lives that make us who we are, and are the reasons why we think the way we do. Our beliefs come from somewhere, whether we were taught them, or if they come from our religions.…
While revenge is a selfish and often cowardly cause for revenge using whatever means one deems necessary . Both motivate people to do…
There are many reasons for which people seek revenge. However, no matter what the reason is, revenge does nothing but harm others. Through multiple characters in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows the true impact of revenge. People want revenge for futile reasons, from protecting their pride, to other, more serious reasons, such as protecting their loved ones. In the end, the effect of revenge is still the same.…
Our society romanticizes revenge, we watch as the hero, in all his glory, gets revenge on the villain for the killings he has committed. It is believed that the crime committed must be matched by the revenge the victim seeks. So we cheer on the hero as he achieves justice and protects justice. However, as Gandhi, one of the wisest men ever to live, once said, “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. So if killing is so evil, why must we adopt it as a form of justice?…
While it can be said that pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit comes before a fall. Equally important to note is that revenge can be a deliberate act of inflicting injury on others, in order to right a wrong. This fact can allow the mind at times to become consumed with the act of revenge. As a result sending one down a path of destruction, which can follow you for many years to come.…
Revenge is almost always emotionally driven and produced by anger, outrage and vindictiveness, and while it is only natural to feel outraged and disgusted by such heinous and violent crimes, it is incredibly dangerous to allow such emotions to govern our legal response to crime as our emotions often blind us and lead to make decisions that have not been logically thought through. In contrast, justice, by definition, is intended to be the rational, objective and fair treatment of others. By this definition revenge cannot be synonymous with justice and it is clear there is a notable difference between the two. Revenge is an impulsive, emotionally driven and a damaging response to a wrong received. In order for there to be true justice, a punishment must be decided upon logically, unbiasedly, and unemotionally.…