Vengeance: A Fictional Narrative

Revenge is an urge that one might seek to feed after their sister cleans the toilet with their toothbrush. As the saying goes, “Revenge is a dish best served cold”. In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens prolongs the theme of revenge, as it develops throughout the entirety of the novel. As tensions arose between the aristocrats and peasants, the French Revolution was born. Sixty years later, Charles Dickens addresses the war through through the stark revenge among the people, which is demonstrated by many characters. As the novel progresses, the reader is exposed to the strong desire of revenge from Madame Defarge, who is the embodiment of the pure

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.

“You may perhaps ask who these rangers are?...in short they are created Indians, & the only proper troops to oppose them. They are good men, but badly disciplined…. He (Rogers) He is a very resolute clever fellow & has several times, as he terms it, banged the Indians and French heartily”

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.

He just had a rough childhood. Rough dad no mom most the time due to the hospital. Usually things are more than they appear to be and you have to step back put yourself in their shoes and try to look at in through their eyes. This book was amazing.

The overall feeling of the poem Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon is the contempt and vengeance of a woman sowing hatred towards a man and how his actions affected her.

“I’m going to kill you.” It’s a threat. A threat he will, most likely carry out, but there’s something in his expression that tells me differently. It’s something that doesn’t make sense with his personality. It’s fear. A fear I know all to well. Fear that he’ll be left here to die and no one will care. The same kind of fear I’ve experienced.

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

'Why didn't he kill me then?' L was busy analyzing the Killer case in every angle possible, it was a challenge for him no doubt. He wandered around, trying to think of any solution. 'Was it because I wasn't a criminal? No, no he definitely must of tried to kill me in that situation...it must be because he doesn't knowing what I look like.'

These three Punisher covers are the outcome of my first clumsy attempts at digital coloring! I made several drawings, they were more or less sketches, then completed with Photoshop. I still cherished that period of experimentation because, despite being really raw, that kind of experimenting made me realize how much I love the “analog” method!

My boss was right sunday was the perfect day for murder, this weekend was very odd for me, and it all started when my boss Bob and I were conversating about a problem i was having with a few people number one on that list Makayla H. She was quite the troublemaker in my life from stalking to sending me weird gifts. Person number two Michael E. now this guy he personally killed my best friend in front of me so yea i want him dead. Person number three Garrett W. this guy stalked my brother for three weeks, suddenly my brother went missing and no one knew where Garrett was either. Person number four well that is Colby A. this guy he is the worst of them all he is the reason i have a fake leg he tried to shoot me while i was running for team USA in the olympics. My partner in crime was number five i wanted him to see what happen to the others before i killed him cause his death is the worst and he was the worst he gave my dog a poisonous kibble. Number five was Zackery B.

The Golden Globe nominated television show Revenge, debuted in 2010. Revenge was produced and created by Mike Kelly. The drama television series is about Emily Thorne who is really Amanda Clarke, whose father was framed for treason when she was a little girl. After a lengthy trial, he was imprisoned for life, and was murdered in prison by the agents who framed him. She has now returned to the Hamptons as an adult to get revenge on those who wronged her father. Not only is Revenge entertaining it also pushes the norm to see how far you will go for someone you love.

Oldboy is a film that has been on my watchlist for quite some time now. So I thought Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance would be worth a watch, as it would not only make for a nice linear starting point into Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance trilogy but also better acquaint myself with his prior work.

Consequential experiences in life, be they good or bad, because of right choices or wrong, often determine who a person is or who they will become. These experiences can shape the person and either destroy them or make them more resolute. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger” (3). These words ring particularly true in the remarkable case of Hester Prynne. The Scarlett Letter, a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1850, is a tale of sin, secrets, retribution and redemption. Hawthorne’s work follows the story of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman living alone in the early 17th century settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony after the presumed death of her missing husband. Convicted of the crime of immorality when she has an adulterous affair and conceives a child as a result, she has been sentenced to wear a Scarlett “A” on her bodice for the rest of her life. The letter, meant to be a form of prison for Hester, is an obvious symbol of shame and a constant reminder for her as well as the town’s people of her impurity and indiscretion. The letter is designed as a punishment beyond her own guilt. Fortuitously and without her realizing it, this suffering, due to societies demand for self-proclaimed justice, awakens in her a more independent, courageous and determined woman; a woman able to ultimately change how she is viewed by others and shake the stigma that surrounds the wearing of the infamous