This four page undergraduate paper examines the short stories "Trifles" and "Killings." The author notes that these stories portray the emotional and psychological harm the desire for and exaction of revenge can inflict upon human beings. These short stories reveal that the taking of a human life, no matter what the killers motivations, rarely reduces suffering, it usually increases it. Revenge is an intensely destructive emotion which dehumanizes the perpetrator and imposes both short-term and long-term psychological consequences, not only for the perpetrator but for everyone involved.
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