Revenge

competence of humans in society. Revenge is one of the epic’s motifs that demonstrate the power emotions can obtain above rational thinking. Revenge is a powerful inhibitor that moves Odysseus and the Greek gods to enforce their pride above others. Homer emphasizes revenge as a strong motivator throughout the epic, through the episodes of Poseidon’s response after Polyphemus’s death and Helios’s cry for Zeus to destroy Odysseus’s crew, to explicate the assertion that revenge is…

Pain “No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place” (Kahane). Is it really? Will you heal yourself by hurting another one? When there was no more pain to make them feel will you feel satisfied, are you going to smile like a cheshire cat? Feel yourself, feel and understand what you want to do. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, revenge’s meaning is “harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to someone else” (“Revenge” --Cambridge Dictionary). If…

Revenge as a means of Obtaining Justice in The Odyssey The Odyssey is a story about Odysseus, the hero, traveling home after a 10-year war in Troy. Throughout the story revenge as a means of obtaining justice is a prominent message. Homer describes the extents, limits and nature of revenge as well as obtaining justice through it. He dos this with Odysseus revenge on the suitors and maids in his house, Helios revenge on Odysseus and his men, Poseidon's revenge on Odysseus and the suitors…

Dial R for Revenge Revenge is a model embedded in our society since the earliest of times. It is a justice that evades the bounds of formal law and almost always undertaken responding to a grievance. To break revenge and its justice down to its simplest terms would be to illustrate the act as a cycle imposed with the result becoming an alliance with power. One character loses control, eventually taking this affair into their own hands, performing the act of revenge, which causes the one whom…

The topic of revenge is portrayed over and over in countless works of literature. Revenge is portrayed in the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, as well as in the novel, “Of Mice and Men” which was written by John Steinbeck. In the play Macbeth, revenge is seen throughout the whole text. Revenge is one of the major themes in this play seeing as there are various parts with this topic laced throughout it. The reason why there are countless killings in this play is because when someone sees blood, they…

usually what society perceives as revenge. What is revenge? According to Merriam-Webster (n.d.), revenge is the act of doing something to hurt the one who had hurt you. But is that it? Normal people would just simply agree to that definition but people who actually think this through would have a totally different definition to it and would say that revenge is the act of hurting yourself thus resulting to the destruction of your own life. The concept of revenge is as old as history. Almost…

ideas, and concepts throughout all his works. These ideas are human tendencies and emotions that can be understood by anyone around the world. Revenge is one idea portrayed in many plays as a conscious feeling no character can overcome. There are different types of revenge and Shakespeare makes sure not to leave any unseen in his works. An act of revenge can be carried out in a way Hamlet 's reaction in the wake of learning of his dad 's murder are of a prompt, savage retribution upon…

another. Revenge has been around for as long as anyone can remember. At some point in time, everyone has tried to get revenge on another person. There is something in humans that makes them want to avenge people that have done them wrong in any way. There are always times where people feel they have been wronged and need to bring justice into the situation. Sometimes, it is simply taking back something that a person stole. However, other times it goes farther than that. These ideas of revenge,…

sanctuarize; / Revenge should have no bounds” (IV.vii.140-141). Here, King Claudius justifies the act of revenge while he is ironically oblivious to Hamlet’s plans of vengeance. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the theme of revenge closely surrounds each character, whether the character is one to deliver it or feel the consequences of it. In this particular story, the characters directly involved in vengeance reside in close father-son relationships and therefore seek to exact revenge on their…

Revenge: Never the Best Answer If one group in the community were to gain all of the power in the area, how severe would the consequences be? The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play written about Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play starts off with a group of girls dancing in the woods around a cauldron. The reverend finds them, and accusations from the town and the girls go wild. The tides turn, and instead of the reverend having control, the group of girls have all the power. One of the…