A great state party is approaching, so the king turns to his “fool” for some costume advice. The mob is broken up when they are warned of an approaching company of American soldiers. A group of men are in the Alaskan wilderness in a bar after a long day’s work. But the New Era Is Different.
Shortly after Frederick, the last Metzengerstein, inherits the family estate, the Berlifitzing stable burns down.
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye, by Frank Miller This novel helped start the Scandinavian crime fiction trend for good reason.
He gets a revolver and builds a time machine.
As with many Westerns, there are some attractive shots of the local scenery, but the overall tone is a dark and claustrophobic one, in keeping with the film’s theme. Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius, who lusts after the crown and the Queen, kills the king of Denmark. 1: The Count of Monte Cristo by. The show depicts the journey of a man, bent on revenge, and responsible for the biggest slave rebellion in human history.
Alexandre Dumas. Set in Victorian England it’s a wonderfully atmospheric and captivating story. A note explains that the coins will be awarded to whoever can repeat the wise advice that was given to the stranger years ago. It’s broad daylight, the wild animals are far away, and they haven’t had an Indian attack in twenty years. This 2004 Rockstar game has sold more than 25 million copies for a reason: the storyline is fantastic. A coward thief named Tom Chaney shot her father dead, and she will not rest until she avenges her blood. Meanwhile, Prussian forces occupy her home territory, and she has four soldiers assigned to live in her home. By telling the story of the most famous gladiator who ever lived, the viewer is familiarized with the tortures, privations, and struggles that Spartacus endures. Stephen Fry, Revenge (AKA The Stars’ Tennis Balls), In this homage to the afore-mentioned Count of Monte Cristo. Personalize your subscription preferences here. What occurred next was nothing less than a massacre. Finally, after everyone else is killed, they turn on her, beating her until their leader, Bill (David Carradine) shoots her in the head just as she reveals that the child she is pregnant with is his. The substitute teacher, Miss Orville, is strict about completing schoolwork and maintaining order in the classroom.
The Iliad, by Homer This is one of those classics that I must have been forced to read at school. As individuals we put a lot of emphasis on justice, and when people treat us unfairly we want to put it right. Vow to take revenge, of course—just as soon as he’s born.
Hamlet is a revenge story that is perhaps like any other – a son’s quest for avenging his father’s murder. A case of revenge being a dish best served cold. Mrs. Foster is always punctual while her husband seems to take pleasure in delaying her for her appointments. His court jester, or “fool”, is a dwarf and a cripple named Hop-Frog. Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
He has a plan for revenge. Mrs. Foster plans to fly to see her daughter and granddaughters in Paris. That’s where our favorite stories come in….
Revenge, together with love and death, has probably amassed the biggest count of quotes and sayings. Two girls going to a concert meet a group of fugitives and outlaws, and are brutally raped and murdered. Nutshell is an ambitious story based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but with a unique spin.
It’s a character saying, ‘no, you can’t do that and get away with it.’ The most powerful stories, for me, are the ones where I identify with a character and could see myself falling into that situation.
A woman in black remembers the attack. An American mathematician, and his British wife, go to live in her hometown, only to be mentally and physically tormented by the locals.
1: The Assassin's Road (Lone Wolf and Cub, #1), War Against the Mafia (The Executioner, #1), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Prepare to die.” The Princess Bride is full of amazing narrative threads, but Montoya’s dedicated pursuit of the six-fingered man will always have a special place in our hearts. With difficulty. So why not shout out the ultimate incarnation of that quest: “My name is Inigo Montoya. Yes, a fetus.
Aware of his mother’s affair (after all, he can hear everything that’s going on) the fetus discovers his mother’s plot to kill his father for his money. Marv figures he should pay her death forward. Raut, an artist, is sitting with Mrs. Horrocks in her home. Not every act of vengeance is justified.
The moral of this story is, don’t mess with a sixteen-year-old girl with telekinetic powers. Then she hires him to travel with her. Alexandre Dumas’s novel recounts the tale of a young man, Edmond Dantes who, because of the jealousy of others, has everything taken away from him.
A Babylonian king tells his guest, an Arab king, to enter his labyrinth.
Privacy Policy | TopTenz T-Shirts | Sponsors. The Three Musketeers guided me to The Count of Monte Cristo where wrongful imprisonment leads to adventure and revenge. He’s in disgrace for refusing to eat his breakfast. We keep being drawn to these books, perhaps, because we’ve day-dreamed of taking revenge on those who’ve hurt us. I’m sorry if I comment too much, but I just thought of a few more revenge films: The Virgin Spring (aka Jungfrukällan, Sweden, 1960) by Ingmar Bergman. When she gets news of her son’s death her attitude toward them changes. At first you feel sorry for them both; by the second half of the book you realize that neither of the main characters are likable or reliable and nothing is as it seems. Quickly it becomes about more than the fire engine: it becomes about power. While some of us are able to contain the urge to seek justice, and punish those who have wronged us, others willingly submit to their primal desires to get even. It is very hard to pin down the main theme of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, though one particular event in the book ensures its spot on the list: The Red Wedding.
This story of a bullied teenage girl’s brutal revenge on her peers at prom is both horrifying and totally captivating. While Miller’s novel does not focus exclusively on Circe’s vengeful magic, it does plumb the motivations and emotional wounds behind Circe’s darker magical acts. He is the colony’s executioner and this position of power and his attitude make him unpopular with the other inmates. The first half of the film can be slow-moving, but the second half is gripping, as the death of his friend Ned leads William Munny (Eastwood) to seek a bloody revenge. Their enthusiasm for making the village safe gets out of hand.
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He doesn’t have much time to decide what to do. The Unforgiven’s most iconic exchange seems to encapsulate the Western’s final take on revenge: when a callow gunslinger, named the Schofield kid, says of two murdered cowboys, “Well, I guess they had it comin’,” Eastwood simply responds, “We all got it comin’, kid.”.
This movie possibly inspired Wes Craven’s “The Last House on the Left”. However, the best example of the sting as a revenge plot is the 1973 film by the same name starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.