Class Assignment - Quickwrite - Vengeance

Vengeance is the seeking of revenge. I think what causes vengeance is normally when someone does something that insults you or gets you mad. Then you try to revenge in everyway possible to get the person into as much, or more, pain that you yourself had suffered through. However, vengeance can often lead to obsession, and eventual tragedy. People will often realize that after revenge is successfully carried out, what he/she had lost would not come back, and that inflicting pain on other people does not make them feel any better. I think this is part of the 'tragic' that comes with vengeance. A lot of times, when people are obssessed with revenging, they forget the real stuff around them, often neglecting the people around, and forgetting the more important things. Also, at times, while revenging, you hurt yourself more than your hurt the person you hate. Hate is also not a good thing to fill yourself with. For example, in the famous literary novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas, Dantes sets to revenge, and ends up hurting more than he intended. Also, in the Shakespearan play 'Romeo and Juliet', the two feuding families, the Montagues and Capulets, plan revenges on eachother all the time, eventually leading to the death of their son and daughter. In Sherlock Holmes adventures, a lot of the criminals are killing for revenge, but their results are usually getting captured by Sherlock. I think vengeance is not a good motivation ( and excuse) for commiting crimes.