Vengeance is like self destruction

Vengeance is a word that by definition means punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense, but for me it can have a lot more of definitions and meanings. Vengeance is an act that requires anger, and when you act when you are angry you don’t normally think very well before doing that. When someone does a bad thing to you the damage is already done, and if you do the same to him you will not gain back what he did. Instead of having one broken life you will have two. Vengeance is a theme we see on everyday life. For example when you are playing soccer and a person hits you really hard and they do not count it as a foul you will get angry and will try to hit the person that hit you.

Vengeance is part of the story of Njal’s Saga. When Gunnar marries Hallgerd he is very close with Njal, but Hallgerd and Njal’s wife Bergthora had a constant fight between them. It happened that these two women started to send their servants to kill the other houses servant. Hallgerd started the fight when she said “I have thought a job for you,” and she handed him a weapon “Go up to Raudaskrid. You’ll find Svart there.” Pg 58 When she starts this a chain of deaths occurs between the servants of the two families. That is what happens with vengeance once it starts it can become a chain and not stop until either one person gives in or one of the persons who are in the chain die. That chain happened in Njal’s saga because one servant killed one of the other houses and the other house sent one to kill the servant that had already killed the servant of his house. I really think that vengeance is not the way to solve all problems and you should find another way to finish because if you do not finish it may continue forever until one person is hurt or one of your loved ones.