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      Revenge is evident in all levels of society. It's human nature to want to get back at someone who they feel "wronged" them. Some believe that it is a form of justice while others think that it is wrong and it makes your no better than the person in which you are seeking vengeance on. Authors sometimes have revenge in their novels as well. Some even center their whole books around the concept of revenge and vengeance. Even some laws are based on revenge. The Code of Hammurabi is a prime example of this. This set of laws was made by the sixth Babylonian King Hammurabi. This of laws, in my opinion, defines revenge. These laws made it so that a person could get even legally. For example, if you cut off a man's finger, then as consequence, your finger would be cut off. Revenge is even in our TV shows. Even on Tom and Jerry there is revenge. For those you have never seen this show, Jerry the mouse is always being tormented by the cat Tom. Well this time Jerry has teamed up with a dog and every time Jerry rings the bell the dog comes and beats up Tom. So Jerry is getting revenge against Tom for all of the bad things that Tom always does to him. But there is also another case of vengeance occurring here. When Tom reads the newspaper and sees that all dogs must be wearing a leash outside he decides to enact vengeance upon the dog. This shows how the revenge can come from people lower or higher than you on the social scale. Revenge is an everyday event. Everyday someone is getting made fun of and bullied. And everyday that person wants the bully to know how it feels to be bullied like that and embarrassed the in the same way or in greater way. Another place where there is a large amount of retribution is in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. There are quite a few characters seeking revenge against someone. Hamlet is one of these characters. He seeks vengeance against is uncle because his uncle Claudius killed his father (without anyone knowing), married is mother Gertrude and became King. So when Hamlet finds out he is relentless to do anything but get revenge. He even kills Polonius, all in attempt to get revenge for his deceased father. And in doing this he unraveled another path of revenge, Laertes's path. To make a long story short, revenge has been around since the beginning of time and is present everywhere. It can be masked as something harmless like a prank or in a video game or it can be violent as taking another person's life. So when you're going to do something involving someone else, rethink what you are about to do. You never know how someone will take what you say or do in a different way then it was intended. And when you feel like you want revenge on someone, stop and remember "An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind."~ Mahatma Gandhi.