I denne study guide kan ud få hjælp til at arbejde med emnet Revenge, som var fokus for en skriftlig eksamensopgave på HF B den 31. maj 2018. Vi viser dig hvordan de tre kildetekster behandler emnet, med fokus på de elementer, som er mest relevante for de fire opgaver, som du bliver bedt om at løse.
Eksamensspørgsmål
The texts in Section A focus on revenge.
1. Write a summary of text 1 “Revenge: Will You Feel Better?” in about 150 words.
2. Give an outline of the various attitudes to revenge in the three texts.
3. Comment on the following statement from text 3: “… we feel both good and bad when we take revenge on another party.”
4. Write an article (150-200 words) for the magazine Advice for Teens in which you discuss how best to deal with the urge to get even with someone.
Præsentation af emnet
Mange finder tanken om hævn tilfredsstillende, fordi det kan forbindes med en idé om retfærdighed, og en tanke om at en person fortjener at blive straffet. Andre har dog gennem historien advaret om, at udførelsen af hævn kan have mange negative konsekvenser - også for den, som får hævn. I moderne tid har videnskabelige studier tilsvarende givet et blandet billede af de psykologiske konsekvenser af hævn, som betyder, at emnet fortsat er omdiskuteret.
Uddrag
Nedenfor kan du se et kort uddrag fra vores study guide:
The statement from Text 3
The statement suggests the act of taking revenge is more complex than it might appear, and one cannot easily label revenge as good or bad. As Fade Eadeh mentions in the beginning of the article, the mixed feelings prompted by revenge have two different causes: “ ‘We love revenge because we punish the offending party and dislike it because it reminds us of their original act’ ” (ll. 15-18). In other words, taking revenge makes people feel good because they associate it with an act of justice. However, taking revenge also becomes a powerful reminder of what offended us in the first place, making us feel worse about the original wrong.
