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You can see how a family history like that might incline a guy to take revenge into his own hands.
It omits the fearful symmetry of the second half of Brontë's novel in which Heathcliff pursues his revenge into the next generation.
But the suggestion did not appeal to them, mainly because such an action would put their families in danger and risk putting ancient tribal codes of revenge into action.
After months of illness and a dead-end job as a showroom model at a flooring company, where she is made to fake speaking Arabic, Julia is lured — partly through trickery, partly through a desire for revenge — into searching for a missing French filmmaker, Dominique Varga.
He goes through the archival records, transcripts, published documents and proceedings, arguing that rather than delivering justice, the Nuremberg trials and the many lesser trials that followed them did little more than channel feelings of revenge into an ordered and regulated form.
The moment the planes had stopped, when we were afraid of the sky, there was a pause when we could have been perfectly American, could have spent infinity dollars and thrown a million bodies at finding the few, lasering our revenge into a kind of love, the blood-hunger kept exact and more convincing for its precision, an expression of our belief that proximity is never the measure of guilt.
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It's amazing how well Shepard gets into the head of a kid and turns revenge fantasy into a frightening reality.
Alternately, at Woot's suggestion, you could "dress up as a palace guard, sneak into some alien crime lord's fortress, and put some mystic revenge plan into motion".
Kikuyus have since taken their revenge, organizing into gangs armed with iron bars and table legs and hunting down Luos and Kalenjins in Kikuyu-dominated areas like Nakuru.
As opera in the style of the 1830's, it constructs a simple geometry of passions: desire, jealousy, fate and revenge configured into a straight line and ending in tragedy, not to mention significant loss of blood.
Our reliable narrator is suddenly nowhere in sight, and what seemed like a straightforward story of revenge blossoms into something more: a meditation on the contextual nature of truth, how the truth of a story -- Nikki's abandonment, for example -- can change depending on the teller.
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