Achilles Good Vs Evil

They say vengeance will rupture the heart and haunt a man’s conscience. If there’s any truth to it, then with certainty it can be stated that that the path pf revenge is a truly unethical one.Just as there are two sides to everyone’s story, there are two sides to each person involved…one that that is exposed to the light of day and one that is kept in the dark.Within each human is the capacity for both good and evil.In revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, the moral high ground that is absolved when one chooses to attack another man for the sake of dashed ego is when a man goes against all he ethically knows and destroys himself in all forms.In the end, the guilty will always fall and therefore the path

of revenge is an unethical choice.
As seen through the eyes of classical societies,such as the greek,Vengeance is the basis for all that is strength and dignity.Tragedy and scandal have a unique way of clarifying people’s priorities,such as the death of a dear friend of Achilles’ by Hector.The rage that drove Achilles to savagely destroy Hector can be seen as a prime example of revenge.Such rage is an example because Achilles is a all powerful soldier who cannot be killed,who looses respect of a dead man’s body and chooses to drag it around town on the back of a chariot.Such an action is disgraceful to the dead and the God Hades himself.Another example of revenge being used as a tactic to level the playing field are documents A and D.Document A describes Hammburi’s law and the statement of an eye for an eye.The use of one universal set of laws for all the of the diverse people is an example of setting up a natural selection of sorts.Loyalties forged in unease and mistrust are tenuous at best.

They are easily destroyed when held up to the unforgiving light of the truth,the punishment.In the desperation to ensure their own survival,people who lived under a lower income tax would commit crimes for they needed money to survive as they were deprived of much-knowing they would have to pay in the form of punishment.Thus,when the wrongdoer was caught,the victim would achieve a sense of revenge.But it was the inequality that raised question to the ethics of such vengeance because the punishments could vary from body

parts to taxes that any poverty-ridden man could not pay and therefore,the use of such a method would choose to further a man with nothing to ensure he would be placed in even more dire consequences.This would become a never ending cycle.Another document that displays the integration of vengeance into modern culture is Document D.Document D displays a girl carrying a head to parents in an act of revenge.It can be inferred that the girl killed an enemy and kept his head to show the man’s true defeat.The true meaning of this painting can only be taking from inferations of it and are therefore,not truly correct.However,it can be seen that such actions were seen as common and culturally accepted.This is important because it shows how society has grown toward being against such unethical actions.The integration of this piece into the culture is also significant due to the way the daughter carries the headband therefore shows that it did not matter who carried out the revenge,just that it must be carried out to withhold the dignity of a man(as assumed due to the articles of clothing and setting of the piece).
But revenge carried out in such a fashion does not capture a truly significant emotion that all will carry if a wrong is committed,Guilt.Guilt is a truly powerful emotion. You can try to turn your back on it, but that’s when it will sneak up behind you and pierce you're soul with fear. Some people struggle to understand their part in their own guilt, unwilling or unable to justify the part they played in it. Others hide from their own guilt, silencing their conscience until there’s no conscience left at all.When the haunting of guilt lures you into the Past,you are condemned to live in a chaos of it.Such a powerful affliction is a weight you carry with you forever.For example,In the Lord of the flies.