Revenge may be all in the anticipation is the headline of a Los Angeles Times article covering several recent studies on revenge. It’s subtitle is:
Behavioral studies suggest that thinking about revenge stimulates the brain but that following through doesn’t improve mood.
Revenge is a good topic for one of the “life skills” lessons I teach to my students, so I’ll used this material and others to prepare a lesson. I’ll share it with readers.
Do you have any suggestions of other resources — literature, articles, movie scenes — that would also go with that topic?
I’ve liked to use this article when discussing revenge in literature:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/opinion/24gilbert.html
Good luck!
Lisa
I’m reading Bridge to Terabithia with my class. In it, the protagonists get revenge on a girl who stole a Twinkie from one of the protagonists younger sister. Later in the book, the other protagonist talks with the bully, who is crying in the bathroom and comes to realize why she was acting the way she did. I think it’s a powerful message of trying to understand the other side.
It reminds me of the quote form Plato, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Will revenge really solve things?