Paris Massacre Vs Hamlet

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Revenge a blade with two sides, and we should be get ready be cut when we try to cut someone. The way that they take revenge in the play “Hamlet”, the movie “Inglorious Basterds”and Paris Massacre are different. In the play “Hamlet,” the protagonist revenge is really personal, and he is the only one trying to get revenge. In the shooting in Paris, revenge is a little more impersonal and complex. The families of the deceased don’t have a way of avenging the Islam State, so the government has to do that for them by sending the French military to fight the Islamic State. If someone other than the Islamic Sates soldier were to lose their live, it will be people that have no direct connection to the victims of the Paris Massacre. In every war innocent

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