Revenge

 

       The feeling inside you that you just want to get rid of, you can’t help feeling the hatred, the pain, the annoyance you get every time you see that one person, that feeling in your spine that makes you just want to scream, hit, slap, or push. You would do anything to inflict some sort of pain. You want this person to feel what you felt. To suffer. If their pain doesn’t equal or become more than what you felt, it’s not enough. Nothing may ever be enough to suffice you. It scares you, but it also drives you. It drives you to madness if you don't succeed. You become a person that’s not you. You’re driven by solely one thing, revenge.
       Revenge is something not everyone experiences in life. I believe there has to be something that majorly impacts your life to give you true feelings of revenge. Something has to make you feel hurt enough to want to avenge yourself, or another person. These feelings have to drive your revenge. Feelings of hurt, pain, suffering, sorrow, and many others that all build up to that breaking point when you make the decision to avenge. There are many real life scenarios where people have been driven to this point. Many murders have been committed because one person has to take revenge on another. People see it every day, all the time. There have also been many great movies that are created by the topic of revenge.
       A recent movie series that came out is Taken. The first Taken wasn't based on revenge. Bryan Mills, a retired CIA agent, had been living a pretty simple life. He was divorced with a seventeen year old daughter whom he cares for very much. She convinces him to let her go to Paris with a friend for a vacation, when she gets taken by human traffickers. Bryan, played by Liam Neeson, uses his former CIA skills to track her down in Europe. In the process he kills, sometimes brutally, anyone who got in his way. In the second movie, Taken 2, the families to who Bryan killed seek revenge on him. They will do anything to make him feel the pain they felt. They take him and his ex-wife while they are traveling in Istanbul with their daughter. This time it’s the daughter’s job to save them before they are killed by the same people who almost killed her. The movie trailor, Taken 2, represents the anger towards him and the actions taken by the people in the movie.
       Often times revenge isn't as obvious as it was in Taken 2, it is often hidden and not seen by other people. It can take a lot of planning by another person to be able to act on their revenge. A person who is mad with revenge may do things they wouldn’t normally do if they were in the right state of mind. This is where brutal murders and killing come in, and often times a person might kill themselves they've gone so crazy. One song that shows what a person will do for revenge is Two Black Cadillac’s by Carrie Underwood. The music video displays what she does to get revenge.

 

       I believe there are many different types of revenge. For example, the revenge taken in Taken 2 is a very vengeful, frightening, and murderous revenge that is terrifying for the person who is the target. All revenges are meant to be this way, but some like Two Black Cadillac’s, is more secretive and not seen by people in their everyday surroundings. In the famous play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, there is a presence of both these acts of revenge. Hamlet, the main character, has a goal to avenge his father after being killed by his uncle. He begins to act mad towards everyone around him so that he can plan a way to seek his revenge. On the outside it looks like he’s going crazy, but in his mind he holds the secret that it is all just an act. He's very secretive and manipulative throughout the play, but in the end his revenge fueled by anger and hurt comes out causing the ending to turn into an all out vengeful murder of more than just one person. Revenge can drive anyone to do things they wouldn’t do in the first place. It is a frightening thing to most people and isn’t acted on a lot, but when it is, the outcome can be a tragic event.