Vengeance
Vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness are words that can cut the tongue just by saying the first letter of each word. What is vengeance? What is mercy? What is forgiveness and should it be granted to those who inflict harm to others? Is there a difference between each or do they all mean the same thing? In “Law Abiding Citizen”, a movie directed by Felix Gary Gray and written by Kurt Wimmer, Clyde Shelton seeks vengeance upon the men who slaughtered his family and the people in the justice system who gave a minor conviction to Darby, the man that brutally murdered Shelton’s family. Darby received a minor conviction by giving information on his accomplice who helped commit the crime. Clyde seeks what seems to be mercy, but does not …show more content…
“Everyone should be held accountable for their actions.” “Law Abiding Citizen”. While this is the rule that Shelton followed, he lacked the emotional and logical capacity to realize that this rule applied to him as well. One can only presume this was due in part to the trauma he had experienced, which left him feeling as if he had nothing to lose since he had lost virtually everything with the murders of his family members. Shelton has been so caught up in the world of vengeance upon others that he has not realized the punishment he could face for himself as a result of his vengeance seeking mindset. His mind is so dedicated to getting rid of his family’s murderers that he does not think about the consequences he himself is subject to face. In Clyde’s mind, he is seeing himself do the world a favor by getting rid of those who “failed” him in his family’s case against Darby. He sees no wrongdoing in his actions and believes he should face no punishment as a result of taking matters into his own hands. The justice system failed him in the most serious manner possible, or so he
Vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness are words that can cut the tongue just by saying the first letter of each word. What is vengeance? What is mercy? What is forgiveness and should it be granted to those who inflict harm to others? Is there a difference between each or do they all mean the same thing? In “Law Abiding Citizen”, a movie directed by Felix Gary Gray and written by Kurt Wimmer, Clyde Shelton seeks vengeance upon the men who slaughtered his family and the people in the justice system who gave a minor conviction to Darby, the man that brutally murdered Shelton’s family. Darby received a minor conviction by giving information on his accomplice who helped commit the crime. Clyde seeks what seems to be mercy, but does not …show more content…
“Everyone should be held accountable for their actions.” “Law Abiding Citizen”. While this is the rule that Shelton followed, he lacked the emotional and logical capacity to realize that this rule applied to him as well. One can only presume this was due in part to the trauma he had experienced, which left him feeling as if he had nothing to lose since he had lost virtually everything with the murders of his family members. Shelton has been so caught up in the world of vengeance upon others that he has not realized the punishment he could face for himself as a result of his vengeance seeking mindset. His mind is so dedicated to getting rid of his family’s murderers that he does not think about the consequences he himself is subject to face. In Clyde’s mind, he is seeing himself do the world a favor by getting rid of those who “failed” him in his family’s case against Darby. He sees no wrongdoing in his actions and believes he should face no punishment as a result of taking matters into his own hands. The justice system failed him in the most serious manner possible, or so he