From the short story "Spanish Roulette" by Ed Vega the poet Sixto vows revenge against a local gang member who raped his sister and battles with himself to make the right choice. Although revenge may be the momentary satisfaction in times of despair, no man extracts revenge for the sake of evil, without the intent of profiting from it, and will be punished for it, regardless of reason, in this life or the next. The theme of these stories is the ability to let go of ones hate, to allow themselves the chance to heal without making the dreaded mistake of taking revenge which will ultimately destroy themselves. The message is clear through all three texts that revenge achieves nothing but gambles everything worth losing for the momentary satisfaction of vengeance. Although the three texts go about different ways, reasons, and potential gain by exacting revenge it is very clear through each story that it is never the best answer.
So distancing themselves, in other words, making them seem as least human as possible, made it easier for the soldiers to commit these horrible atrocious killings. These ordinary people put themselves in the psychological mindset that their victims were lesser than them, or they deserved to die, anything they could think of in order to excuse their killings(164, Browning). This can also be seen in Maus , in regards to some of the horrible executions and killings committed by the Nazi guards. On their march to Germany “In the daylight, farahead, I saw it. KRAK!
All the possessions the victim and their family owned were confiscated. Those who failed in a suicide attempts were arrested, publicly shamed, and often sentenced to death (Crouch). This social fear and disdain for suicide lasted until the 17th and 18th centuries, when suicide began appearing in many of Shakespeare's works. Many of the playwright's most famous works contained deaths occurring at the character's own hand. Shakespeare penetrated society's stigma of suicide, demonstrating that the
Here he says that weather you kill people or take tire of car you will be punished anyway and when you will be punished you will forgot what you did and will be punished for no reason. Secondly, Misfit was forced to kill the family because they recognized him and he was scared that if he leaves them they will call cops. He didn’t wanted to the killings , but circumstances made him do the killings. He wanted to help them because they had an accident
Her death caused much commotion to all the people who new her; the closer they were to her, the more they suffered. This is why the murder of Cassetti is looked at as justifiable. In Christie’s book many passengers denounced Cassetti, ”If ever a man deserved what he got, Ratchett or Cassetti is the man. I'm rejoiced at his end. Such a man wasn't fit to live!” and "I did so rejoice that that evil man was dead – that he could not any more kill or torture little children.
This is the turning point for Yossarian as he sees death right in front of his eyes. There were also many symbols in the book. One symbol in the book is when Aarfy raped and killed the girl in Rome. As Yossarian is telling Aarfy that he is going to be arrested, Aarfy denies the fact and insist that he wouldn’t be arrested for killing “her”. This shows how insensitive war makes some men.
Having the occupation as a “poor beggar” was considered illegal and the punishment would to be beaten. The beatings were extremely bloody and merciless, those who were tediously being caught could be sent to prison for life or even hung by the neck. Punishment for lower classmen during the Elizabethan period included the following: hanging, burning, whipping, brandings, pressing, the wheel, boiling in oil water or lead, starvation in public places, and cutting off body parts. Being burnt at the stake was an appalling death, some executioners showed mercy to their victims by placing gun powder at the base of the stake which helped to more swiftly and less malevolent death. Other deaths were suffocation through respiration of the smoke creating less oxygen witch you can not
Faulkner has death in the readers mind by starting out with "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral," (Faulkner) already giving the death theme before the reader knows anything. It hangs over the story the whole time. Because of Poe's writing style, Montressor is seen as a more unstable character than Emily. Throughout "The Cask Of Amontialldo," Montressor gives clues to his victim that he shall soon be punished. It shows that Montressor has put more thought into his murder, making it premeditated.
1) Punishment in the stocks: Stocks are procedures used internationally in medieval times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks are similar to the pillory as they consist of large, hinged, wooden boards; the difference, however, is that when a person is placed in the stocks, their feet are locked in place, and sometimes as well their hands or head, or they may be chained. Public hangings: Public hangings are a use of public humiliation and to scare the people of doing crimes. It was done by showing the whole community a person’s consequences to going against the law. They would bring massive crowds of people to come and see the hanging.
Lynching is being “put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.” People were being killed without a right. However, people were not just hanged. There were other crimes that included castration, burning at the stake, maiming, dismemberment, etc. This horrendous crime “…seemed to have been an American invention.” This means that we came up with the idea of torturing and