Summary

The first question in your assignment asks you to give a summary of Text 1 in about 150 words.

The text “Revenge: Will You Feel Better?” is an article written by psychologist Karyn Hall in 2013.

The article states that understating emotions is important for better managing them and gives the dictionary definition of revenge as a need to retaliate for a perceived wrong.

The article argues that revenge is a powerful human emotion; it is considered normal by Shakespeare, but it is rejected by thinkers such as Confucius and Gandhi. Researchers argue that revenge is a way to get justice while its threat is a form of protection leading to social cooperation. However, sometimes the urge to get even can lead to some extreme actions and consequences in love, business and even in school a...