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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by revenge. A dish best served cold... or

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hot and deep-fried if you're needin' some comfort food.

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Which of the following best describes the narrator's beliefs about revenge?

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The narrator believes that wrongs can be corrected, or redressed, by getting revenge, but that

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the redress doesn't count if the avenger is caught and punished.

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So, we're on the hunt for the answer choice that reflects this hardcore attitude.

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(C) is totally wrong. Forgive and forget? Yeah, right. That's the opposite of our

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revenge-driven narrator's philosophy. It's the narrator who wants revenge, not

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Fortunato, so we can nix choice (D). Our narrator is not about getting punished at all.

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Choice (A) can be eliminated as well. Answer (C) sums up the narrator's philosophy

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that it's OK to take revenge on somebody as long as you don't get caught.

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Sounds like a good basis for a stable society to us; what could possibly go wrong?

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