When I Seek Revenge Persuasive Essay

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If you sought revenge, would you feel better? Would all your hatred and anger towards that person be resolved? Revenge is defined as “The action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone in return for a wrong suffered at their hands.” It gives the person satisfaction from being able to cause pain to the person who had originally hurt them either physically or emotionally. Therefore, the question I have to ask everyone is, what do you think revenge achieves for a person?

Only with knowledge about the different circumstances are we truly and confidently able to answer this question about the outcomes of what revenge achieves. Have you ever questioned what events may have occurred to make the person seek revenge? People do not casually go around
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Hitler is someone that showed clear examples of abuse of power through his hostility towards Jews in Germany but what is it exactly that drove him down this path of revenge? Theories arose that apparently Hitler’s hatred for Jews began with a Jewish doctor who could not save the one and only person Hitler truly and dearly loved- his mother. Germany’s defeat in the first world war only resulted in many bittersweet and like most German soldiers, Hitler struggled to accept Germany’s loss. From Hitler’s perspective, Jews always had the upper hand over Germans especially with economic influence in Germany. Possessing noble professions such as business owners or bank owners whilst Germans were barely even home owners. After World War I, there were over 150 Jewish owned banks whereas only 11 were owned by non-Jewish people. Whilst the Jews were on their feet and establishing a living for themselves, Hitler had still attempted to find a career in art and he barely scraped by on selling his paintings to local stores. Jews were scapegoats for every bad thing happening to Germany and particularly the infamous Hitler himself. Jews were blamed to conceal his insecurities, despite his obscurity. Insignificant, yet he used his insecurities to rise to power, to become someone whose name later became

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