About Revenge

“About Revenge” Revenge and anger are emotions that affect humans in their lives and will ultimately lead them nowhere. This is seen in Bacon’s article “About Revenge”, literature of the world, and someones personal experiences. In Bacon’s article “About Revenge”, he reveals his personal opinion about revenge. Bacon states “when one refuses to take revenge, he shows that he is better than his enemy.” Bacon believes the person who does not take revenge and can forgive for what has been done to them is the better person. Bacon believes that, “people who take revenge live the life of witches”, and, “they cause trouble to others and it all comes to a bad end for them anyway.”(Bacon) Over all Francis Bacon thinks revenge and worrying about past injuries is just a waste of time and ultimately someone would get nothing out of it but a life of a witch and everything would come to a bad end anyway.
In the play Hamlet the situation of revenge that was most straight forward was Lareties’s revenge on Hamlet. Lareties decides to take revenge a cowardly way by challenging Hamlet to a fencing duel but ensures his victory by dipping the tip of his sword in a very potent and deadly poison. This situation would connect to Bacon’s article because he states “not letting your enemy know you are going to get even is a cowardly thing to do.” This corresponds to Lareties putting the poison on his sword without Hamlet knowing. Another novel that has a situation of revenge is Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. The character Lennie has mental problems and accidentally breaks Curly’s wife’s neck. Curly found out it was Lennie who did it and wanted to kill him but Lennie’s friend George did not want this to happen so he took on the responsibility himself and shot Lennie