One rainy spring afternoon I noticed a flashing light and a loud, booming sound outside my bedroom window. I quickly grabbed my raincoat and ran outside to see what was happening and before I knew it, blinding lights teleported me inside a strange object. I had never seen anything like it and then I realized I must be inside a spaceship! Strange-looking blue creatures appeared in front of me and began asking questions about human feelings and emotions. They seemed harmless, but curious about what I could tell them about revenge. So I started by saying that revenge is the act of inflicting pain or harm on someone in the hopes of getting revenge for wronging someone else. Revenge is spiteful, and people often take revenge out of anger or hatred. Human beings have a tendency to want to be hateful towards those who have harmed us. Revenge is done for a variety of reasons: someone hurt you or someone you love, sometimes it is done to be malicious and other times because someone took advantage of you. There are three different ways to explain the idea of ​​revenge. Through a story, a poem and a play, I will try to explain revenge. The short story is "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe, the poem is "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, and the play is "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. All these writings encompass this broad idea of ​​revenge, but at the same time show different sides of revenge and the circumstances behind their actions. “The Cask of Amontillado” presents revenge and secret murder as a way to avoid the use of legal means to obtain justice. . The law appears nowhere on Montresor's radar screen. Fortunato's constant insults fuel Montresor's hatred, so he appoints himself Fortunato's judge, jury and executioner. It's obvious... middle of paper... why I still had my raincoat on. Works CitedCarey, Benedict. "Revenge Time: Why Revenge Tastes So Sweet." The New York Times, July 27, 2004. Web. April 23, 2014. Cummings, Michael J. “My Last Duchess.” Cummings Study Guides. Np, June 2012. Web. April 27, 2014. .Mays, Kelly J. “The Cask of Amontillado.” 11th ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2013. 165-171. Print.Mays, Kelly J. “Hamlet.” 11th ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2013. 1709-1804. Print.Mays, Kelly J. “My Last Duchess.” 11th ed. New York: WW Norton and Company, Inc., 2013. 1334. Print.Price, Michael. "Revenge and the people who seek it." Np, 2009. Web. 23 April. 2014. .