Redemption and revenge are strangely similar and at the same time, completely different. Both ideas can change a person’s life for better or worse. Both are used when something is done to someone that wasn’t good. On the contrary, one is used by those who look to the future and focus on how to solve the problem while the other is used by those who look at the past and focus on how to punish the wrong-doer. Being able to redeem one’s self is a wonderful thing. It heals past wounds and mends all pains. People who wish to redeem a wrong are looking at the bigger picture and want to solve the problem instead of making it worse. Take the story of A Long Way Gone as an example. After Ishmael was rehabilitated and was freed from being a child soldier, he was given a second chance in life and tried to live a normal life. He even went to the United States and gave a speech to help stop the use of child soldiers in war, helping to undo the wrongs being done in Sierra Leone. Many times however, his anger towards the rebels in the war would begin to rise inside him, but because he knew what would happened if he couldn’t control himself, he fought against it and could have a calm, calculated mind ready to solve the problem he was facing. …show more content…
While you fight and injure one head (your enemy), the other head is sneaking past your defenses and poisoning you. And while it’s doing this, you’re so busy killing the one head that you don’t notice the other is slowing killing you until it’s too late. Revenge never completely solves the problem, because even if you succeed in getting revenge, the event still leaves a scar that can only be removed through redemption. In the episode of The Twilight Zone called “One More Pallbearer,” a millionaire by the name of Paul Rudin plans to take revenge on three people who wronged him in the past, but it back fires on him, causing him to go completely insane and believe that he is the last man on
An analysis of Mycerinus and Kha-merer-nebty II and Augustus of Primaporta, reveals that there are many similarities, but also many differences between these two pieces of sculpture. These similarities and differences are found in the subject, style, and function of both works of art.
Some people think that if they could only change one aspect of their lives, it would be perfect. They do not realize that anything that is changed could come with unintended consequences. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken both illustrate this theme. They demonstrate this by granting the main character three wishes, but with each wish that is granted, brings undesirable consequences. The main idea of this essay is to compare and contrast “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish.” Although the “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” are both fantasies and have similar themes, they have different main characters, wishes, and resolutions.
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah explained his journey throughout his life; whether it was with his family and friends or at war against the rebels in Sierra Leone. During the attack on his village in Mogbwemo, Beah was separated from his family when he was in another city with his brother and friends. At the young age of twelve, Beah was forced to flee from village to village with the aim of escaping the rebels. Eventually, he reluctantly joined the army as a soldier against the rebels. Throughout his memoir, Beah used multiple different tones. Beah described the cheerful times with family and friends, along with the dreadful and shocking times of war.
College writing has numerous aspects. Successful College Writing by Kathleen T. McWhorter does well in covering many of those aspects. Consisting of a good deal of example essays, Successful College Writing helps students learn about the different parts of making a quality formal essay. Some of the example essays in the book work hand-in-hand in getting points across. Two that work well together are Dearly Disconnected by Ian Frazier and Is Sharing Files Online Killing Music? by Jonathan Adamczak. Both display how to write about topics like change. Since the two essays have similar writing styles and topics, it would do a student well to review them.
... always justice, and there is usually more emotion involved in the revenge and thus the revenge hurts more than the original crime hurt.
But, getting revenge won’t get rid of the situation, it only makes it worse. When someone seeks revenge it doesn’t justify what happened, it only makes a person stoop down to the wrong-doer’s level. For example, when Prospero made Alonso believe his son was dead because Prospero’s daughter could have died when he was driven out of Milan, he only stooped down to Alonso’s level. This shows because if Prospero believes that Alonso wronged him by putting his innocent daughter in danger, he contradicts this belief by doing exactly what Alonso did, by putting Alonso’s innocent son in
“If you live in a society where the rule of law is weak, revenge provides a way to keep order. But revenge comes at a price. Instead of helping you move on with your life, it can leave you dwelling on the situation and remaining unhappy, psychologists' research finds. Considering revenge is a very human response to feeling slighted…,” (Price). Revenge is a natural human response that we think will help us; however, many times it ends up hurting us.
Revenge is defined as harming someone for the wrong doings that they commit. Revenge is the key ingredient to hundreds of the most loved and action packed movies, books, and shows of today. Because of the fact that there is so much vengeance played out in entertainment media, society encourages revenge as necessary to those seeking retribution. Works of art such as Kill Bill and “Killings” are prime examples of stories that are about revenge.
...uilty feeling inside people. It is pointless for doing thousands of good things in the present when they could not change a sin in their past. Redemption can be considered as a comfort, that gives people "the illusion", a feeling of believing that they could pay back for their sins. However, it is not true; what has been done could not be inversed again. For example, Amir may have saved Sohrab's life by rescuing the boy from Assef, but that is what he does for Sohrab, not Hassan. His half-brother had still been raped by Assef, he got shot and already died. That truth is unchangeable. In fact, redemption is an action that may be kind of selfishness because most parts of redemption are all about sinners, when they try to make themselves feel better. Therefore, the author's statement of the redemption, "there is a way to be good again", is not always true.
The person at whom the revenge is directed may have harmed the person carrying out an act of revenge indirectly or not at all, but on some level there is a perceived personal grievance. An unaffected third party, on the other hand, can carry out Justice. In most developed countries it is considered vital that the judiciary be independent from the government, partly for this reason, which is justice also doesn't necessarily involve any act of retribution. For example, the “acquittal” of an innocent person can be considered an act of justice, but it certainly isn't reveng... ... middle of paper ... ...
When you read a book or watch a movie, you want it to capture your attention immediately. Revenge is one of those themes that can easily be used grasp the audience. It is always an exhilarating theme to read about because it can bring out so much in a character. It will often be used to bring out the worst in people. It can make people go mad, and in fact it can completely consume them. It can bring people to an extreme point in life, and this is what makes it so fascinating. In the movie, Straw Dogs, the protagonist, Dustin Hoffman, goes to such an extreme. After Hoffman’s wife is taken advantage of, he begins to slip into the abyss of madness. He wants revenge, and then it escalates quickly into a bloody battle. Older novelists also often used revenge to show the extremes of people’s personality.
We can examine the difference between revenge and justice and make mark of differences and similarities. Both are a form of punishment, but only one is used in a morally ethical way. It is very easy to act out of revenge, but takes tremendous self-control to display acts of justice. One must take a step back from the situation, and try as hard as they can to view it from an unbiased vantage
It is the idea of revenge that sends a cool shiver down the spines of justly men when they begin to question as to why someone would stoop to such a level. But yet it is still more than an idea for revenge has been carried out in various forms along all the eras of history side-by-side of that of novels and tragedies. Even so, revenge is still a dark scheme; an evil plague of the mind per se. It is such a plague that will turn even the greatest persons of the brightest, optimistically capable of minds into lowly, as well as lonely, individuals. Thus, revenge will, and can, only end in despair and agony of the mind. Therefore, provided that all that has been said is true, revenge would appear quite unseemly to the observant onlooker. However, taking an in-depth insight into revenge you can uncover quite a compelling feature, which is best summed up into one word. Pride. Pride is the one clear motivational proprietor needed to push a protagonist into the downward spiral of personal vendetta. Without pride, revenge is no more than a mindless massacre of flesh and bone ending in the obliteration of any hope for reconciliation.
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” But in the novel 1984 by George Orwell and the film V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue, both governments use methods such as monitoring civilian lives and the distortion of historical facts in order to prevent civilians from having freedom of self-thought and to prevent civilians from knowing their government’s faults. Both governments use these methods in order to emphasize how they’re ready to take any action if they feel threatened so they can maintain ultimate power
Taking revenge is a bitter sweet thing. I have always thought that people should always get what they desire, whether it be a grade, a smile and hug or in some cases, revenge. When I was in high school there seemed to be someone always trying to get me in trouble, they would say things that wouldn’t be true or do things to make me look bad. The fact that I never seemed to do anything to them would make me mad and wonder what I could do to get them back. Revenge would usually come in some sort of verbal put down or I would try to physically hurt them. It always seemed when I would get the revenge right away I would feel really good but as I thought about what I did, and what they did to me I would always feel guilty or wish I would have never done anything to them in return.