Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Revenge


“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.” From Nineteen Minutes

Write a blog explaining your belief that seeking revenge can be justified or can never be justified. Support your thesis with examples from texts your have read, examples from the news, or your own experiences.

32 comments:

Anonymous said...

for me when i want revenge on someone ill hurt them. most likely givin them a nice one to the nostrals. i know this isnt the best way to handle a situation but thats just how i feel.

Haas

Anonymous said...

I think if someone hurts you, revenge is never needed. If you get revenge, you'll just be making your reputation worse. For example: if someone hurt you bad mentally, then you just walk up to them and punch them, people will think you are a psycho who randomly punches people! It makes more sense when it's physical pain both ways, but you'll get punished for getting revenge. I'm a believer in karma. If somebody hurts me, I just try to take the high road and let karma be their punishment. Revenge doesn't reverse what happened, it just make the whole situation worse.

-Ben

Anonymous said...

Revenge I think only makes me feel better at that time, but when I look back at some of the things ive done I just think to myself did I really do that. To me revenge is just instant gratification and is the best thing you can think of at that time to get even.
-Tyler

Anonymous said...

Revenge never helped anyone. In dozens of movies, someone tries to get revenge and it always ends badly. Like in Friday the 13th when Jason's mother kills all the camp counselors because he drowned. And in Sweeny Todd, Benjamin Baker kills all those people (trying to get to the Prime Minister for banishing him for ten years)because Mrs. Lovett tells him that his wife is dead.
A great book about revenge is Carrie by Stephen King. So, basically, what happens in Carrie is that this girl, Carrie, has an insane mother who won't let her talk to anyone and has all these insane rules that keep her iscolated. Kids at school make fun of Carrie and she discovers that she is telekinetic and she turns her powers against them at prom.
All these situations, altough fictional, show you how badly revenge can end.
~Jules:)

Anonymous said...

Sweet, sweet revenge... yeah it's not so sweet. The correct term for it would probably be called bitter sweet revenge. It comes in a package basically. You get what you want at the moment, hurting someone physically or mentally to get them back, but in the end you'll probably regret it. Revenge in my point of view is stupid, like really? Get over it, Susy took your boyfriend... people get mad eachother for stupid things just like that. Seaking out revenge is making you just as low as the person, pointless right? Why would you risk doing something stupid, you could always take your anger out on something else... like in sports or something. I'm probably not one to talk because I've done stuff to get back at people before, but I regret it now. Revenge is seen everyday, like just today I heard someone spilling secrets about their friend because they got mad. She'll regret it. That's something else... girls usually use verbal abuse to get revenge, and guys usually use physical pain to get revenge. Weird.

-Alexis(:

Anonymous said...

i know people are gonna come on here and say that revenge isnt good, and that they never want to get revenge. true is like nick said everybody probably would loovee to punch someone in the face that they want revenge.
in the past if i wanted revenge i might insult them or want to just pop em in the mouth right there and then. but we just want to do that cause we're guys. guys minds work in a physical way, if someone does something mean or bad towards them the first thing that we want to do is punch em. that's that. unfortunatly that isnt really the best way to solve things. doing that can give you a bad reputation. nick i hope you dont mind me using you as an example, but like in class when you were saying how people trash talk other people just because they think that you will be there to back them up, and you said you dont want that to be what people think of you when they hear the name nick haas. so guys, punching someone in the snozz isnt that great of revenge.
on the other hand, there are the ladies. when someone does something mean or nasty to a girl oohhhhh boy LOOK OUT! you never ever want to get on the bad side of a female with resources. if you do, that girl will go into you past, bring it up to the present and tear. you. down. that girl will spread so many things about you, you might as well make yourself home schooled. girls take revenge in an emotional manner. they try and get into the heads, rather than punch the heads like the boys do.
i think that i would rather want revenge from a guy then a girl. because a girl can get eVeRyBoDy against you and that's no fun. but when you recieved revenge from most guys you just can take the beating and move on. revenge isnt good. not saying ill never do it....

dan o

Anonymous said...

in my first paragraph ignore the "true is" sorry

dan o

Anonymous said...

i think you can't justify revenge because if you want revenge so bad that it takes over you life. You'll waste your life trying to get revenge when you could be doing better things. Sometimes you could take revenge on someone and break a law. just like in 19 minutes when peter took revenge on his classmates and is arrested. that day peter killed more then those 10 people that he killed when he got his revenge.
-Cherry

Anonymous said...

Revenge makes you feel better at the time and like alexis said you will regret it and you cant take it back. For most girls, when they want revenge they just spill that persons secret to everyone..yea ive done it and i regret it sooo much because our friendship was hurt for the longest time and sometimes still isnt that great. i think that getting revenge on someone is just making you seem like the bad person because no one knows the whole story except you and the other person and sometimes that story isnt even true. The only reason people get revenge is to try and hurt the other person for hurting you and i feel like revenge usually doesnt give you the satisfaction you want out of it because it doesnt make the pain go away from what happened to you.

*bridget*

Anonymous said...

My personal opinion on revenge is that no matter how fun it may be, by getting revenge on someone, that makes you just like them. Im not saying that its totally unnessesary to get revenge on someone sometimes, but u have to think about what it felt like when that person did something mean to you. Do you really want to make them feel like that?
I have been tempted to get revenge on someone many times, but I never did. Looking back on that, im truely glad that I didnt. I have no regrets. Knowing that Im not as insecure and low as that person is enough for me. Isnt that usually how it is? Someone is insecure and makes themselves feel better by hitting an all time low. And then the person they were mean to is hurt and retalieates. It becomes a.vicious cycle and im personally too busy with my life to deal with that.
-Jenna <3

Anonymous said...

Dan,
i do agree with what you said about girls mostly, but i just wanna say it isnt all talk all the time. I would personally LOVE to punch someones face in sometimes haha. But thats just me.
-jenna<3

Anonymous said...

I tink revenge is a never ending cycle if you give someone revenge they give it back etc.I always thought about giving revenge,I never did.I thought about what would happen after the revenge.I would feel bad that i did that and the other person would feel horriable too.
~Leah D.

Anonymous said...

dan you are doing amazing on the blogs keep it up

anyway about revenge..the definition of revenge-to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, esp. in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
in my words inflict pain on someone who pissed you off. whenever boys get angry they will most likely say bring it on we will fight. and they will tell their buddies that they are going to get revenge on the other person and it is such a HUGE mess. personally im on the guys level with the whole thing of punching someone in the face but that's because if i get really angry i fill with anger and i really want to just go punch someone. this may follow with a few other girls like Jenna said.
girls though usually just slash someone down to nothing. find things that they had done in the past even the smallest things like dan had said. if you side with the girl who is getting "revenged" ( if that's what you want to call it) on than goodbye forever because your past is going to be dug up as well. with girls just stay out of the whole thing because it is a disaster.
last...saturday at soccer a girl comes up behind me and just takes my feet out from under me and they score. that moment i am pissed beyond anything its not even funny. i am about a step away from going up to the girl and punching her but i couldnt because most likely i would have gotten a red card and we had no subs so i couldnt.. instead my "BAD REVENGE" was not shaking her hand when we say good game.. i know real bad! but i could have inflicted so much more pain on her. I say if you want revenge talk to someone about it first before you do something REALLY STUPID.
-jessica packard-

Anonymous said...

Jess,
i TOTALLY agree :) great job!!
-Jenna <3

Anonymous said...

reveng is not worth it because it does nothing but waste time being mad





Craig O

Anonymous said...

Revenge....... for people with major anger problems its the best thing in the world. For me revenge means nothing. People make fun of me, i just hold it all in... i don't go and plot any type of revenge. Yea i might speak my mind to them, about what they said or did to me. But nothing physical. I feel that there is no need to use any physical violence, to get revenge on any one. Instead of using physical anger, i would just talk it out with someone. Like my best friend. That's what i think about revenge.
~~michaela howell(:

Anonymous said...

Revenge can be justified sometimes, but it all depends on what you do. if you kill someone it can not be justified, but if you hit someone I belive it can be justified. And sometimes revenge is just not worth it at all.




Miller

Anonymous said...

Short and sweet, Craig. I like it.

Everyone at one time has wanted to get revenge on someone. I think sometimes revenge is something that u just have to try and get. Like if you were to be getting picked on all the time, yea i think its time to stand up for your self and get revenge. But for the most part. Its stupid. You waste time your time bein all angry when you should say screw wit, i dont care what u think or did. Im gonna not let it get to me.Ive been realy angry at someone before and i have wanted to get revenge, but like a day. later i get over it and think back and say, did i really just waste my time getting angry over something. Most of the time Revenge isnt worth it.

_Eric

Anonymous said...

I think that revenge is a yes and no topic. It can be justified but it can't. Say if someone were to kidnapp a family member, but leave your their name. Obviously, you'd want revenge. But I think revenge is a delicate topic, almost like a drop of water on a flower. If you shake the flower, the drop dies. If you want revenge bad enough, you let the rage, hate, contempt, whatever you want to call it, tell you what to do. I for one, know that almost all of the time, even if something stupid happens to me, I want revenge. Suprisingly enough though, now, I have actually started to think about the consquences and it actually helps alot. Say someone pegs you with a ball at recess and nails you in the back of the head, I mean like really lasers you with the ball, you'd probably pick up the ball and pulverize back to him/her. But if you stop and think,(which rarely happens in my case) the teachers or whoever is the responsible adult watching almost ALWAYS SEES THE SECOND BLOW.

Then they'll come over and say how you should'nt be hurting little Johnny with a ball, because it might hurt his feelings and he gets off without so much as a slap on the wrist.

For whatever reason, I remember the story of Mr. G running down the stairs and proceeding to throw the guy who had his hand on his mom's throat out the front door. And I remember him describing the rage he felt.

And no one should sugarcoat it for us. But if ANY of us would find ourselves in that position, we would probably do the EXACT same thing, if not worse.

A couple day ago, my step-dad had it out with his son, on their front lawn. For whatever reason my stepbrother, Chris, decided he was going to tell my dad that he hated him and he was going to f***k him up. Then Greg, (my step-dad) tried to punch Chris in the face, twice. If my dad had made contact, he would probably be in jail right now. Now, Greg had never tried to hit Chris in his life.

That actually served as a lesson to me. And also reminds me of what Mr. G said. The rage controls you, and tells you what to do. And 90% of the time we listen.


Jon Hanes

Anonymous said...

revenge i think can never be justifyed. if you really wanna get back at them just wait and watch i promise u karma will come back and bite them on the a**.but likw if you do go after them think about it i mean really think about what are you gaining from it? to be at peace that now you are even? thats just sickening.if somebody did something to you y sink to their level and go back at them?

~veronica lee browne~

Anonymous said...

revenge is something everyone craves at one time or another. say if you get made fun of or get picked on every single day and you want revenge, more power to you. go knock em out. but that should be the only time because frankly revenge is dumb. yeah you can sit there and be pissed at the world and want to do something to ruin them but its not worth it because revenge is dumb. yeah ive been so mad and wanted revenge so badly but i look at the situation and say is it really worth it? is it worth wasting your time planning something out? is it worth the consequences? is it worth wasting your time on that person? the answer is no because if someone is gonna beat you down physically or emotionally they're trash and you know what you do with trash...you forget about it and throw it away


Sean Maloney

Anonymous said...

I believe that it is not right to get revenge but i can understand why someone would want to. When someone insults you they usuly they just want a reaction out of you and if you do say something to are playing right intom there hands. But if I was hit that is a different story. i would deffinetly strike back to let them know im not just a pushover. But all in all you should not seak revenge and if you do you are as no good as the people that started.

Zack Aho

Anonymous said...

My opinion on revenge is that no matter how fun it may seem or be, by getting revenge on someone, that makes you just more like them. Im not saying that its totally unnessesary to get revenge on someone, but you have to think waht it felt like when someone got revenge on you and hwo you felt. Do you really want to make them feel like that?
i have been tempted to get revenge on someone and i have a few times, but when i look back on the times i did i regret it becasue i only made that person felt what i was feeling and i felt horrible. The times i didnt get revenge on someone im glad i didnt because then it would jsut be somethign i regret doing and would onyl make that person feel worse.
-nichole :)

Anonymous said...

For me it depends on what happens to me. If its like someone says something about me I can usally keep my cool but if they punch me I can get pretty mad. Sometimes with revenge my anger gets the best of me. For example I was over a friends house and I picked him up and dropped him by accident so he five stared me in the back. I got really really really mad and chased him and when he told me to hit something i hit his support pool in the basement and shook his whole house hahahaha( the poles padded). But I usally try not to seek out revenge becuase I dont wanna hurt someone


Luke Gilbert

Anonymous said...

To me revenge is less of an emotion and more of a need. Wether it can be justified or not depends on what the revenge was and why you got revenge. ever since the first time i got revenge on some one i knew it was worthless after i thought about it. Its like you finnally get your revenge and...... Now what??? NOTHING. But people still go back and get revenge on some other person just for that split second of you feeling like you won.

Alec

Anonymous said...

Revenge in the moment feels good but if you look back on it later you probaly think why did I do that. Personally I don't really have any need to seek revenge. Of course if someone were to come up to me and punch me in the face I would punch them right back. But I don't know, people don't really ever pick on me and I don't pick on them, so no need for revenge. Sometimes my freinds and I kid around but it never gets personal.

Zach Anderson

Anonymous said...

This is actually a coincidence because today I watched a movie called "Don't Get Mad Get Even." In the movie a girl is ignored by her family so much she runs away. I think revenge is a delicate thing. Two wrongs don't make a right and your just bringing yourself down to their level. Revenge is an on going cycle where no one really wins until you give up. I know every time I try to get revenge I always end up getting hurt. I don't know what it is but when I get too much anger in me I end up hurting myself, which is why I think revenge is pointless, but now that I think about it I do do it unwillingly. In the book Josie turns down when Alex tries to be there for her after years of not being apart of her as sort of revenge. I do do that to my mom allot. Once in a while shell be like how was school and I always pretend not to hear her because she doesn't care anyway I do that every time she decides to join my world for a minute. Once I get home I just go to my room and stay there unless she decides to make dinner, then she makes me come down. So in a way I'm unwillingly giving her a taste of her own medicen.

K.siggy

Anonymous said...

I think revenge is a cop-out. It's used when people are trying to find a way out and they turn to it for their answer. Revenge can be an affect on many different emotions; jealousy, anger,hurt,or confusion. There are many other ways to solve a problem without having to seek revenge on someone. but for that particular person and that particular time, revenge on their mind is the solution. It's pay back. A way for someone to make themselves feel better by harming someone else. Like dan said, guys are more physical when it comes to revenge. Girls can beat someone up just by using words. But in most cases, i think the people who choose revenge end up feeling worse than they already did. It doesn't help anything- it just makes everything worse.

- h garthwaite

Anonymous said...

Revenge may seem like the right thing to do at one time when your mad but you probably will end up regretting it.Like in mean girls when Cady sets it up so Grechen doesn't get a Christmas Card from Regina and Gretchen flips like a dime and tells Cady all Gretchens secrets.If I were really wanting to seek revenge this person would to do something major. They would probably have to repetitivly hurt me or they would have to say something to one of my family members or close friends and hurt them.It upsets me when small things happen but usually I don't do anything about them which is and isn't a good thing because I should stand up for myself.If you do something really bad in return then that doesn't make you any better. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Leah Oattes:)

Anonymous said...

i think getting revenge is not worth it because you are wasting time feeling mad at someone or somthing like when i was 7 years old i was in a car accident and i had a spinal cord injury and my best friend is in a coma to this day but the driver olny had a couple of broken ribs and a broken leg. right after the accident i was so wanting to get revenge it was like every thought in my mind was that guy deserves somthing bed to happen to him compared to what happened to me but now i look back and say it wasnt worth getting mad about it.


Craig O.

Anonymous said...

Although it isn't right, revenge is just. Going to jail, well, that's revenge. They call it punishment for doing something bad, but it's still the same thing. No one should ever be hurt by another human being, unless you're competing to attract a mate. That's just nature taking it's course. I have many times in my life wanted revenge for what people have done to me. The thing that isn't fair is that by getting revenge, you get a taste of it too. Karma. It exists, and it's always out there to get us. That kid every one makes fun of for being a super-nerd and carrying around a Pokemon folder is going to be the one owning the hovercar production company that you'll be working for some day. I don't think that person is going to forget what you've done to them, so you're going to get it, HARD. Revenge is sweet, but only when you don't get hurt by it. That is to say, revenge can never be sweet.

Anonymous said...

That up there was by me, sorry for forgetting my name.
~D@n F!nk~