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Vengeance has been a popular theme that has been used in many stories and movies for many years. For example the 2008 movie Taken, starring Liam Neeson, is about a CIA agent, whose daughter is taken, or kidnapped. He gets a hold of the criminal on the phone and promises him that he will find him and his daughter. Neeson eventually receives vengeance when he kills all of the bad guys and successfully saves his daughter. One simply cannot understand the true meaning of vengeance with just the denotative meaning. Examples from Romeo and Juliet, various comparisons, and multiple definitions, truly help to illustrate the full meaning of the word. The word vengeance can be applied to Romeo and Juliet using both denotative and connotative definitions. It can also be represented using a metaphor , as well as negative
