The Revenge Seeker

News article, “Revenge and the people who seek it” written by Michael Price explores an in-depth perspective on the concept of revenge and how it effects people. Revenge is used in a variety of different ways. It can be used to, find personal satisfaction, show dominance, or a way of keeping order. People seek revenge for different reasons depending on their culture. However, most of the time people motivated by power tend to be more vengeful. Revenge can often times be confused with catharsis. An experiment conducted by Kevin Carlsmith, a social psychologist, resulted in showing that revenge seems to be sweet and relieving, but in the end it does not solve any problems and you end up feeling worse.

The article “Revenge: will you feel better,” author Karyn Hall (2013) claims that while the temptation of revenge may be convincing, acting upon these urges is not always worth the consequences after. Hall contemplates the idea of revenge being “self destructive” and being harmful to both those giving and receiving revenge. Furthermore the article states People who have been hurt seem to believe that if the other party suffers, then they will feel better and that their emotional pain will lessen. This idea is later touch on towards the end of the article when author explains the idea of the “understanding hypothesis”, which is when the offender knows the connection between the original insult and the retaliation. In contrast, the author also

Do two wrongs ever make a right? Or as Zits contemplates in the novel Flight, “Is revenge a circle inside a circle inside a circle?” (77). In Flight, written by Sherman Alexie, the main character, a troubled Native American teenager named Zits, travels through time and different bodies while learning about many different things that pertain to and can help him in his own life such as revenge, trauma, violence, forgiveness, family, and betrayal. A scene in the middle of the novel where Zits is in the body of a young boy at the Battle of the Little Bighorn reveals to the reader (and Zits) one of the things that had the biggest effect on Zits-revenge. Zits sees in this scene how revenge in general, and his personal revenge by shooting the people in the bank, just cause more pain as taking revenge just leads to more revenge.

A woman went by herself to spend time at her mother-in-law's grave site, when suddenly she wasn't alone anymore.

Hate crimes can cause emotional or physical harm. The victims live life in fear because they are being targeted. However we are in America. All citizens should be able to live in peace. The severity and aftermath of racially motivated crimes are the main reason laws towards hate crimes were created.

Is the desire for revenge a basic component of human nature? The highly awarded movie The Revenant is an epic story of Hugh Glass’s mission to seek revenge on those who had wronged him. The movie teaches many important life lessons, but they differ significantly in comparison to the book it's based on. Not only does the story teach important lessons, it is a notable legend in American folklore. The motion picture rendition of Michael Punke’s book The Revenant changes the meaning of the book because despite the similarities in the characters and the initial storyline the ending scene redefines the book.

Hate crime is a type of crime that occurs against an individual or individuals just because of their race, gender, religion, or age. These crimes include homicide, burning down a business or somebodies house, harassment, and etc. Despite the fact that the expression "hate crime" may appear to be new given the consideration it has gotten in the previous quite a while these sorts of offenses have been around for a long time. Even though government and state laws contrast, most ensured qualities incorporate race, religion, and sexual orientation. There actually have been contentions against the arrangement of hate crime laws. Not everyone believes that hate crime violations have been a noteworthy issue in the public eye, however some people consider

A scapegoat is someone or something that receives all the blame for when something goes wrong. Scapegoats have been humanity’s way of pointing the finger and ignoring any wrongdoing that may have led to a failure. No one ever wants to take responsibility when a failure occurs, but there’s always someone around to take the glory if success is achieved. Historically speaking, scapegoats were more of a reason people used to do bad things. Hitler, for instance, used the Jewish religion and people who practiced it in his country as his scapegoat for trying to achieve domination. No one wants to gain the responsibility and criticism that comes with failure, but appointing a scapegoat seems to be the easy way of dealing with it.

This writing focuses on the character Roger Chillingworth, who is one of the main characters in the Scarlet Letter. Chillingworth is first introduced as a “white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized clothing and savage costume” (“Scarlet Letter: Page 1365”). It goes on to describe him as a small old man who has a look of high intellect and a deformed body. Chillingworth plays a chilling and disturbing character throughout the book. He acts almost inhumanly, which one could note that even Chillingworth’s name was supposed to portray him as being cold hearted. He was Hester’s husband in the Scarlet Letter. He also took on the role of the town physician, and was referred to as a “leech” which at the time was another name for doctors

The single most destructive force in this world is revenge. An immense amount of wars, murders, division, and hatred is due to the evil that is revenge. There are many famous forms of literature that discuss revenge. One is “Of Revenge” by Sir Francis Bacon. In this essay Bacon explains the evil of revenge and why it shouldn’t be taken. Also, down-playing revenge, Robert Kennedy gave a speech called “A Eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” Immediately following the death of Dr. King, Kennedy pleads with the African American community and America to forgive this offense instead of taking revenge for King’s murder. The final piece of media that discusses revenge does it in a different manor. Edgar Allen Poe writes about revenge in a short story called “The Cask of Amontillado.” The plot of this story is that of a man named Montresor desperately seeks revenge upon a colleague and eventually murders him by trapping him in catacombs deep underground. No matter what the circumstances, revenge should never be taken because men become controlled and destroyed by revenge, and revenge creates division among people.

I think hate crimes should be extra punished than the other crimes. The crimes motivated by greed anger or revenge are reasonable. I am not saying is right or acceptable, but those motives make sense. Greed, anger and revenge are emotions that each of us had experiences in one point or another. Most of the people know how to deal with those emotions, but some people act on those emotions and committed crimes. For an example if someone hurt John Doe’s daughter will be understandable if he is angry, and if he beats up the person who hurt his child, we can see the motive. In case with the hate crimes there is no reasonable motivation. That is only one of the many reasons why the hate crimes need to be punished severely. Hurting someone just

Revenge as a theme is cleverly built upon throughout Hamlet; with it being the driving force behind three of the key characters in the play. Revenge is a frighteningly vicious emotion, which causes people to act blindly and without reason. In Poe’s, “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor enacts revenge for reasons unknown. Hamlet in contrast, has all the motive in the world to complete his task; yet he constantly hesitates. The text reveals that the need for revenge creates a stranglehold on the genuine emotions, thoughts, and actions of three characters: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Laertes; son of Polonius, and Fortinbras; Prince of Norway. This hold makes the characters act beyond their standard ethical positions and makes them helpless to

In the Greek play Oresteia, the theme of the intersection between past, present, and future can be seen in the instances of revenge and justice that occur between various characters. Also, the play can teach us many aspects about how to improve our life in the future in order to become better people, by learning and deviating from our actions and forgiving others for what they have done instead of retaliating.

Throughout history, revenge, or vengeance, has been altered by several cultures and even the American culture. This is shown throughout many ancient greek epics. Throughout these two epics, what is just revenge and what the action of revenge is are much different than what Revenge is seen through today’s society. Revenge is the main theme in The Iliad, with Achilles’ revenge on Agamemnon and Hector, and in The Odyssey, with Poseidon’s revenge on Odysseus and Odysseus’s revenge on the Suitors, and these epics define how revenge was seen in the ancient Greek world.

Perhaps one of the biggest problems that result in desire for those who have malicious intent is due to mental illnesses. As a result of gun control, other costs associated with it would decrease such as the millions spent in healthcare for mental health care for victims and suspects. There are already restrictions prohibiting the ownership of a firearm by felons and the mentally ill but defining the mentally ill becomes tricky, even though background checks that check for mental conditions is required before having possession over a firearm. (ProCon2) One would assume anyone who has the desire to kill another, especially in mass quantities, would be sick in the mind but more often than not these actions are a result of how they were once treated