Revenge In Shakespeare's The Fall Out Boy

Revenge is a dangerous game to play; it takes over the mind and often blinds one from seeing the big picture. In life, there is more than meets the eye, we are often distracted by our minds we miss out on the overall view, as the imperfect human beings we are we let our emotions take over. We have to teach ourselves to stop, and think, to look at the big picture and see what is really going on around us. There are so many things in our lives that make us who we are, and are the reasons why we think the way we do. Our beliefs come from somewhere, whether we were taught them, or if they come from our religions. The Fall Out Boy album cover is a very simple piece of art but disguises the bigger message; not all things are as black and white as they seem to be on the …show more content…
Hamlet is just a boy mourning the death of his father. He isn’t a murderer, but he seeks out revenge on his uncle Claudius. The photo I choose for visual rhetoric shows that there is more under the surface than meets the eye. Our minds often take over and cloud the way we view things in the world, we are often blinding by our feelings, we forget to step back and actually think about things in what they actually are. Thales teaches that not everything is as it seems to be. In the album cover you can see that it is the fist of a boxer, but it shows what is under the glove and what is under the skin. When we see a boxer, we see a beast, a professional fighter, but we forget that behind the title lies a person, someone just as human as you and I. Appearances often deceive the way we feel about one another or think about aspects of life. We think we know everything, but as Kierkegaard teaches, “if you think you know, you don’t know.” Our lives are only a fraction of the existence of mankind. There are many things in life that we don’t have the slightest idea about. We are blind to noticing people for who they truly