`` Daddy `` By Zora Neale Hurston And Cask Of The Amontillado

Revenge is the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt them. People have been getting revenge on others for thousands of years. People usually get revenge to regain power because when someone wrongs them they feel like power has been taken from them. Sometimes people like to go outside of the law to get revenge. This is because they feel like the law is not enough to give the person who wronged them the right amount of punishment for what they have done. â€Å"Daddy† by Sylvia Plath, â€Å"Sweat† by Zora Neale Hurston, and â€Å"Cask of the Amontillado† by Edgar Allen Poe all show the things they or their characters would do to get revenge on the person that wronged them and the different ways they did it. The poem â€Å"Daddy† by Sylvia Plath is a revenge poem about her father. Her father died when she was ten and she has been affected by that her whole life. She misses him a lot and she even tried to kill hersel f to get back to him, â€Å"At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you†(Plath). After she had failed at killing herself, Plath says â€Å"and then I knew what to do. I made a model of you† (Plath). She had married a man and modeled him after her father. Her husband abused her which did not make it any easier for her. Plath gets her revenge at the end of the poem because she says â€Å"if I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two† (Plath). This meant that if she killed her husband then that means she would have killed her father. Plath gets her