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Vengeance Absalom kills half-brother, Amnon, for raping sister, Tamar. [O. T.: II Samuel 13:28–29] Aeneas’s companion; kills Promachus to avenge brother’s murder. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] enabled by Zeus to grow to manhood in single day to avenge father’s murder. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmer-man, 2] avenges Patroclus’s death by brutally killing Hector. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] mutilated by Samuel to requite Israelite slaughter. [O.T.: I Samuel 15:33] seeks revenge on whale. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick] epithet applied to Zeus and others as avenger. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 49]
takes vengeance on Turiddu for adultery with his wife. [Ital. Opera: Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana, Westerman, 338–339] cuckolded by brother, serves him his sons for dinner. [Rom. Lit.: Thyestes, Brewer Dictionary, 1081] takes vengeance on David, whose father stole Ebenezer’s woman. [Brit. Lit.: Kidnapped] his house and riches seized by the governor, murders the governor’s son and others, and betrays the city to the Turks. [Br. Drama: Marlowe The Jew of Malta in Bella, 521] Tito’s aged benefactor, robbed and betrayed by Tito, eventually denounces and strangles him. [Br. Lit.: George Eliot Romola] tortures Dimmesdale for adultery. [Am. Lit.: The Scarlet Letter] will not rest until father’s murder is avenged. [Fr. Lit.: Colomba] destroys Olympia because of bad check. [Fr. Opera: Offenbach, Tales of Hoffmann, Westerman, 275] deprived of her lover by Baron Hulot, she eventually manages to ruin the family. [Fr. Lit.: Balzac Cousin Bette in Magill I, 166] innocent victim’s blood calls for justice. [O.T.: Genesis 4:10; Br. Lit.: Richard II] uses his wealth to punish those who betrayed him. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo] avenging goddesses or Furies. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI,l: 326] takes vengeance upon Alvaro, alleged murderer of his father. [Ital. Opera: Verdi, La Forza del Destino, Wester-man, 316–317] wreaks vengeance on her father’s murderers. [Gk. Lit.: Electra] sons of the chiefs killed in the siege of Thebes avenge their fathers’ deaths by razing the city. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 318] Moses’s lex talionis. [O.T.: Exodus 21:23–25; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21] avenges his public humiliation by Eisenstein. [Aust. Operetta: J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus, Westerman, 278] horrible avengers of crimes. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 381]
warns the king whenever enemies approach, but kills him when he breaks his promise of a reward. [Russ. Ballet: Coq d’Or in Goode, 78] spurred on by his father’s ghost, avenges murder of his father. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet] kills Polymestor’s children and blinds him for his treacherous murder of her son Polydorus. [Gk. Drama: Euripides Hecuba in Benét, 450] spitefully effects decapitation of John the Baptist. [N.T.: Mark 6:19–26] adventurous avenger of his father’s wickedness to his mother. [Am. Lit.: Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha in Magill I, 905] stages a play that gives him the opportunity to kill his son’s murderers. [Br. Drama: The Spanish Tragedy in Magill II, 990] to avenge the murder of his sweetheart by two Mormons, trails them from Utah to London and kills both. [Br. Lit.: Doyle A Study in Scarlet in Sherlock Holmes] kills Abner, murderer of his brother. [O.T.: II Samuel 3:27] noted tale of retribution, inspired many works. [Am. Hist.: Benét, 544] (Cousin Bette) swears to get back at the Hulots. [Fr. Lit.: Cousin Bette, Magill I, 166–168] Christian-hating merchant’s betrayal of Malta. [Br. Lit.: The Jew of Malta] uses poisoned nightgown to kill Jason’s new wife. [Fr. Opera: Cherubini, Medea, Westerman, 81] redresses insult by entombing insulter in catacomb niche. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Cask of Amontillado”] daughter of Night, brought retribution upon haughty. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 221] killed his mother and her lover for having murdered his father. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 741] refused his promised reward for ridding Hamelin of rats, he lures the children away. [Ger. Legend: Benét, 787] wreaks vengeance on daughter-seducing Duke of Mantua. [Ital. Opera: Verdi, Rigoletto, Westerman, 300]
brings down the temple of the Philistines to avenge their blinding of him and dies in the process. [O.T.: Judges 16:28-30] kills Ptolemy for the murder of Pompey. [Br. Opera: Julius Caesar in Egypt, Westerman, 52–53] plots to avenge son by murdering the Andronicus family. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] exacts revenge for crimes against his family. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] barber returns to England; takes revenge for false conviction by slitting throats of customers. [Br. Folklore: Misc; Br. Lit.: Sweeney Todd; Am. Musical Theater: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, in Facts (1979), 292.] traditional symbol of vengeance. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] a multi-millionairess, she bribes the villagers to execute the man who was responsible for her shame. [Swiss Drama: Duerrenmatt The Visit in Benét, 1063] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was in a state of mind superinduced by these conditions that La led forth her jabbering company to retrieve the sacred emblem of her high office and wreak vengeance upon the author of her wrongs. Yes, I would bear my sorrows, and become great, that in a day to be I might wreak vengeance on the king. And then Chance carried a little leather ball beneath the window where the old man stood; and as the child ran, laughing, to recover it, De Vac's eyes fell upon him, and his former plan for revenge melted as the fog before the noonday sun; and in its stead there opened to him the whole hideous plot of fearsome vengeance as clearly as it were writ upon the leaves of a great book that had been thrown wide before him. |
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