A burning sensation. An overwhelming urge to retaliate. Vengeance is not merely justice. It is **the desire to inflict pain in equal measure**. Or more. An unending cycle of hatred. It drives humans to commit horrific acts in the name of retribution. But does it truly heal the wound. These words contemplate the dark side of the human psyche.
āThe beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.ā
āIt is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?ā
