Joy wrote:
Is whatever is today's equivalent of this "men's fiction"
still based on this revenge theme? Or was it peculiar to that
era? In either case, why?
*********** Revenge has been a recurrent theme throughout the
history of literature. Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Dante, and
Shakespeare all explore it as a theme. And as far as the
reason why, Al has pretty much covered that. Justice is a
legal form of revenge against the guilty.
When the judicial system is deemed inadequate,
vigilantism is a common result in hardboiled writing.
miker
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