“An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.” ( Mahatma Gandhi ). Although many aspects of revenge resemble the concept of justice, revenge connotes a more injurious and punitive focus as opposed to a harmonious and restorative one. It is natural for people to feel a need to get revenge when something wrong or unfair has been done to them. If one child hits another, it would be the injured child’s natural reaction to hit the other back. In every movie or story read, when a husband cheats on his wife, does she ever just sit there and do nothing about it? The answer is no. Although the need for revenge may seem natural, it very rarely pays off in the end. This is apparent in both real life and many texts. William Shakespeare’s “Romeo
