“Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.”-Emo Philips. When you have a specific situation such as a person having an evil thought in mind, revenge , or domestic violence you never know what may happen. During specific times you have to defend yourself based on another person’s intentions. For example, when you have a domestic violence call the victim is usually an unarmed woman trying to defend herself until the cops come. But if times come to it she (or someone being domestically violated) will have to hurt someone just in case to get out of a serious situation. Have you ever been domestically violated and you killed someone? If you answered yes then you did the right thing because they were trying to hurt you and you had to protect yourself in order to stay alive. Domestic violence is always justified because when you have situations, such as killing someone for your own protection, it is always necessary. …show more content…
Take Medea for example, what she did was reasonably justified because of what Jason did to her. Jason was seeing Glauce (the princess) while he was married to Medea. So Medea took it upon herself to get revenge for the pain and despair he left her. So Medea, being the justifiable one, made Jason break down and finally got the revenge she was looking for. So when it comes to specific purposes in domestic violence you have to kill someone for your own protection. Even if the person was just plotting to do something you always have to stay one step ahead of their game. So when you kill someone the person who loves them most will have a complete mental breakdown and never to be seen again until they learn to deal with the situation. Just remember that all cruel things must have an evil plan before carrying anything out. Have you ever tried to get revenge on someone and it killed them on the inside? Well if you have then you have successful thing of creating a well thought plan. When it comes to making a well thought out plan it takes weeks for things like that to happen. But for Medea, she came up with a plan in just one night. She was going to be banished tomorrow and she knew it, so a she had to make a brilliant plan to stay. But when it comes to evil, well thought out plans they could be tricky and may need to be altered so you make sure the plan goes perfectly. The way evil plans are justified is that when there is a problem that somebody handled with violence and hurt someone they loved then they carry out their long thought out plan. But what people crave most when it comes to murder and carrying out your plan is revenge. You have to have revenge before you do anything else. Have you ever had something done to you and you didn't like it?
Did you ever try to get them back? Well that is how society usually works. When you have a person that really hates you and tries to pull something on you and it works, that is called revenge. But you have two types of revenge: the good revenge, such as paying someone back from a previous bill etc., then you have the bad revenge (which is good for specific people) which is murdering someone. But when you have revenge in general it is all based on the type of situation in which you are in. Medea for example, she got revenge on four people, which included Creon, Glauce, and her own two children. She killed Creon because he tried to exile her from Corinth, she killed Glauce because she "stole" Jason from her, and she killed her own two children because Glauce accepted the gifts and children into her new family and Medea didn't like that. So like I said, revenge could be good for some people who have done wrong things to
other. When it comes to murder, it can always be justified on any serious situations. However when you do it on accident, you are still justifying the means of murder. Even though that you killed someone there was still a cause, whether it was domestic violence, an evil plan, or even revenge, and the end result would be either their lives or someone else's. No matter what you do to a person you could never go wrong when it comes to this situation. In addition, it is ok to murder someone if they did something wrong whether it is small or not, but there will be consequences for the victim, such as the horrible scene that leaves their face when they shoot, stab, etc. Justifying the means of murder for it always being justified was hard because when you deal with topics, it could go both ways and say that murder is good and/or bad.
One of the reasons why IPV victims do not leave his or her abusers is due to isolation. This one of the any methods abusers use in order to achieve control over his or her victims. Abusers isolate the victim by cutting the victim's ties to any support system and resources. A support system includes family, friends, classmates, coworkers, and the government. Isolation is one of the many methods used in order to gain control over the victim’s life. In the autobiographical novel, I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence, the author Beth Sipe discusses the domestic violence that she had suffered during her 16 year marriage. Sipe describes their “romance,” the abuse of power, Sam isolating her and her family, the confusion, the fear, the
As mentioned earlier I would start my discussion with a very prominent emotion called Anger. Anger is defined as a person’s response to a threat or the perception of a threat against an individual or group. Anger is an emotion that is often difficult to control because of the intense physiological reactions involved in the fight or flight response that triggers anger. The fight response is a response triggered naturally by the body to protect itself against the instigating situation (Lazarus, 1991). In the novel The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald narrates two important incidents that stand as a fine example for expressing anger with violence i.e., 1) Tom hits Myrtle 2) Wilson kills Jay Gatsby.
“Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate.
Historically, legal and social traditions in the United States have permitted and supported the abuse of women and children by the male head of household. This historical phenomenon helps explain why women are the primary victims of domestic violence. In this country, civil rights and legal responsibilities were first granted to free, property-owning men. Wives, children, and slaves were considered "chattel" or personal property of male citizens who were held responsible for their public behavior.
Humans commit many acts of evil towards each other. Some well-known examples are Hitler killing the Jews during the Holocaust, spouse abusers, and infamous serial killers, like John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. Another example is Satan worshippers in Russia stabbing four teenagers 666 times and then proceeded to eat them (Haywood 1). Another example is a woman and her boyfriend beating her 1-year-old son with belts...
Later in the story, our sympathy transfers from Medea to Jason. Her revenge turns immoral, leaving readers with a sense of uneasiness. It is not so much the fact that she kills Creon and his daughter, but the fact that she slays her children in cold-blood.
Violence is everywhere. Whether it is police brutality, war, or gory and bloody entertainment, violence is exceedingly common. People attempt to avoid the negativity, yet members of the community observe violent situations fairly often. Even though averting violence can be fairly uncomplicated, it can fester where people live. A home should be a comfortable sanctuary for those who live within its walls. Unfortunately, victims of domestic violence do not have this luxury. They live in fear and wonder what painful ordeal they will experience. Victims of domestic assault suffer physically and emotionally; the pain can leave bruises and cause mental damage. Domestic violence and abuse are insidious plagues that can destroy families and ruin lives.
Domestic violence is about intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power. Children who witness domestic violence can mean seeing actual incidents of physical/and or sexual abuse. That can simply mean hearing threats or hear fighting noises from the other room. Children that witness the aftermath like bruises and blood can also be affected in a traumatic way. How can children that witness and experience domestic violence develop socially?
“I love you. I can love you like nobody else could. If I can’t have you, nobody can have you”
For generations, the gravity of domestic violence in America has been disregarded and glossed over; perhaps it is because 60 percent of all domestic violence takes place at home. Domestic violence is defined as, the situation in which an intimate partner or someone you live with attacks you and tries to hurt you, often including physical assault, sexual assault, and bullying. “Every year, more than 3 million children witness domestic violence in their homes.” (safehorizon.org) Domestic violence at home is altering the psychological state of children, creating a huge impact on their lives and their future.
The first reaction upon hearing about the topic of battered men, for many people, is that of incredulity. Battered husbands are a topic for jokes (such as the cartoon image of a woman chasing her husband with a rolling-pin). One researcher noted that wives were the perpetrators in 73% of the depictions of domestic violence in newspaper comics (Saenger 1963).
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.
Is it an argument or something more? This has been a long time debate on a sensitive topic. Domestic violence is an ongoing epidemic and there is no right or wrong but multiple opinions clashing together.
“Domestic violence is a violent confrontation between family or household members involving physical harm, sexual assault, or fear of physical harm” (Stewart & Croudep, 1998-2012). In most places, domestic violence is looked at as one of the higher priorities when trying to stop crime. Domestic violence cases are thought to be influenced by the use of alcohol, drugs, stress or anger, but in reality, they are just learned behaviors by the batterer. These habits can be stopped as long as one seeks help (Stewart & Croudep, 1998-2012). For instance, a child is brought up in a household that is constantly involved in criminal acts.
Revenge to some people is an unnecessary act because it often times leaves one feeling guilty while also not solving any problems. In Medea’s case however, revenge seems to be the only option. In the play Medea, Euripides tells a tale about an intelligent and feisty woman who has been shamefully wronged by her husband. Jason has taken another wife into his home and isn't fazed when his father-in-law requests for Medea and their children to be banished. Throughout the play however, Medea seems to be anything but sympathetic to the whole situation along with those affected by it. She’s utterly abhorrent while she threatens everyone's lives in the palace, kills her husbands new wife, and worst of all during the execution her children.