The Consequences Of Revenge In The Film Fist Of Fury

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

The ultimate goal of a boxing match is a knock out. The knockout punch brings satisfaction to the winner of the boxing math and the crowd. This one punch can make a fight exciting. However, if there is not a knockout punch, the fight is often times dull. After a knockout punch, one man loses consciousness while the other man dances around the ring raising his hands in victory and is swarmed by his coaches and the press. Oates continues to argue that boxing is the cruelest sport by comparing a boxing match to a tragedy. If a fight has no knock out by the end, it seems like the fight is missing something. The knockout punch is a cruel but key aspect to boxing which makes people love

Isabels short story, “An Act of Vengeance” is an example of the power she depicts towards women along with her foundation, “The Isabel Allende Foundation” which she states, “Empowers women and girls worldwide”. In her text, in which a young teen’s father is killed by the same man who raped her and took away dignity and reason for living building up hate towards him. The irony is as Allende states, “She searched her heart for the hatred she had cultivated throughout those thirty years, but she was incapable of finding...Then she understood with horror that by thinking about him every moment, and savoring his punishment in advance, her feelings had become reversed and she had fallen in love with him”(Allende#1). The hatred and punishment she wanted to give him for what he did turned into an unstoppable love. Isabel Allende is a strong feminist and it can be seen throughout her writing, reason for this is her personal experiences, causing it to change the way she refers when writing about the opposite sex.

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.

Gorn goes to discuss the rules and regulations of boxing, stating; “The two athletes settle on a site for the fight. Strip to their shirts, roll their sleeves up…” (Gorn, pg.37) By adding this information and going to such detail as he does; “At the end of the fight the boxers are bruised, disfigured, and covered with blood, which they spit out, vomit out, or drip from the nose.” allows the reader to get a feel for how violent these fights were but also to allow readers to dive into the fight with their feet first. Gorn goes on to discuss more fights and discusses ‘The Great

The retaliation of the Japanese had the world concerned by the oppression of military actions and to reveal power during the modern era (1900’s). The strategy of the Japanese

Overall, the Why We Fight films reflect the strategic priorities of the U.S. government and focused primarily on the struggle in the West. A Japanese equivalent to this series is titled The Battle of China. This was an epic paean to the resistance of the Chinese people against Japan’s aggression. Through all of the destruction and devastation of the Japanese, they come with this counterpoint that was heightened by a commentary in which Japan’s rhetoric of “co-existence and co-prosperity” was recited while the screen showed the devastation of China’s cities and the mutilated corpses of its men, women, and children.

A fight will spark your team and give them a little more jump in a game most of the time. Skilled players that rarely fight even agree that fighting should not be taken out of hockey like Henrik Zetterberg of the Detroit Red wings, Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks and

World War II was a devastating war, whether you were directly in the war zone, or away from the battlefield, you were impacted greatly. Flyboys is a book written by James Bradley, in this book Bradley tells stories of World War II using first-hand accounts. In chapter five, Bradley discusses “The Rape of China” which was a battle that took place in 1937 during the beginning of World War II. In this battle, the Japanese fight the Chinese and destroy China. Both Japan and China had very different moral beliefs on fighting in the war. China believed that the soldiers needed to “be courteous,” and to also be “neither selfish nor unjust” to civilians (Bradley 54). Meanwhile, the Japanese had totally opposite policies known as the “Three Alls” meaning

According to the article, “Revenge: Will You Feel Better”, written by Karyn Hall Ph.D, revenge is one of the deepest instincts we have. Revenge is a form of establishing justice according to researchers and theorists and that a threat of revenge can be a form of protection to prevent people from causing you harm in the future. “People who have been hurt or betrayed seem to believe without any doubt that if the other party suffers, then they will feel better­­their emotional pain will lessen,” states Karyn Hall. A test was made to see if people would would feel happier after exacting revenge. The outcome was that every person who exacted revenge felt less happy than in the beginning. This is because, “When people don't get revenge, they tend

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.

    In Elizabethan times, a type of play known as a "revenge tragedy" became popular. These plays revolved around, "... the revenge of a father for a son or vice versa, the revenge being directed by the ghost of the murdered man..." (Harmon and Holman #6). Other characteristics include real or pretend insanity, philosophic soliloquies, hesitation on the part of the protagonist, conspiracy, and the use of horror. William Shakespeare's Hamlet fully satisfies each of these traits, making it an excellent example of a revenge tragedy. Certainly, the most critical theme in the play by far is that of revenge; it fuels the plot and story of Hamlet, reveals the hamartia of the protagonist, and is used successfully to

In the cinema scene described earlier, Tarantino uses a number of different cinematic techniques to show us this theme of vengeance being brought upon by the Inglourious Basterds and Shoshanna. At the beginning of the theater scene, it starts out with low lighting. The only reference of lighting we have in the entire theater is coming from the projector. The low lighting in the start of the scene is quickly taken over by the theater being lit up in flames. Tarantino uses this quick transformation between the dull lit movie theater, to the flaming cinema to accentuate the shocking effect it had on the Nazis. The faces of the Nazi party were made viewable as a result of the fire. Tarantino uses the images of the Nazi’s faces in the scene to express

     There is an old saying, "The sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons." When the sons in question are Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras - pivotal characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet - one might wonder how each man's father affects their particular natures - their particular sins. While Hamlet could be considered a story in the vein of Cain and Abel; a jealous man who slays his brother, an allusion which Claudius himself makes during his "prayer" at the climax of the play - "O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven,/It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;/A brother's murder! . . ." (III, iii, 36-39) - the greatest sum of miseries in the play are caused by the paths taken by Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras

In the world today, it seems as if a mistaken glance, a change of plans, or even an insufficient amount of exclamation points is enough to get someone mad at you. And not just a couple of days of the cold shoulder, but grudges full of petty revenge schemes. A mean comment on their photo, tripping them in the hallway, blocking their account… pretty stupid decisions can come from a misunderstood argument. Michael Punke’s book talks about the same things; animosity and bitterness, vengeance and outbreak. Except Fitzgerald didn’t ghost Glass, and Bridger didn’t send him the wrong emoji. They stole his survival supplies and left him alone to be killed by Native Americans, right after Glass was attacked by a bear. It’s pretty clear that Glass didn’t take the high road. And this wasn’t some half-attempted scheme for vengeance. No, Hugh Glass crawled on his hands and knees for miles in pursuit of killing the two who betrayed him. And though other characters in the book show hints of revenge, Glass is the character who shows the most radically clear signs of it, and his undying pursuit is what most clearly develops the theme. In The Revenant, the author Michael Punke uses the character Hugh Glass’s hunt for revenge to show that strong emotions and the desire for revenge can blind us from the most basic logic, and cause us to make irrational decisions.