question: The difference between getting revenge for someone and avenging someone
comment: Revenge is personal. You get revenge on someone that harmed you. You avenge someone by getting revenge on behalf of someone else. For example, you kill the man who wounded you, you got revenge. You kill the man who wounded your friend, you’ve avenged your friend. Edit: grammar
passages: One of the great contentions of the revenge tragedy is the issue of private revenge vs. divine revenge or public (i.e. state sanctioned) revenge. In his essay, "Of Revenge," Francis Bacon writes: "the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the Law out of Office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his Enemy. But in passing it over, he is Superior: For it is a princes part to Pardon."
   Section::::Authorship.
  
  "Revenge for Honour" was believed up to the 20th century to have been written by George Chapman, appearing in volumes of his works in the 19th century, but the current consensus appears to favor authorship by Glapthorne since J.H. Walter's article in "The Review of English Studies" (1937).
  
  Section::::Critical opinions.
   Section::::Plot.:The Count of Monte Fatso.
  
  Marge tells a cautionary tale of revenge taking place in 19th century France, parodying the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo".
   Section::::History.
   Section::::In animals.
   BULLET::::- In 2004, Jamila M'Barek paid her brother to murder her husband, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury.
  
  Section::::Notable instances.:Mythological.
  
  In Greek mythology
  
  BULLET::::- Clytemnestra murders her husband Agamemnon as an act of vengeance for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia, and to retain power after his return from Troy. In Aeschylus' "Oresteia", the Erinyes consider Orestes' matricide a greater crime than Clytemnestra's mariticide, since the killing of a spouse does not shed familial blood, but the opposite view is espoused by Aeschylus's Athena.
  
  Section::::In fiction.
  
  Section::::In fiction.:Films.
   BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1985 film), Malayalam film
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1990 film), American crime thriller starring Kevin Costner
  
  BULLET::::- "The Revenge" (film), 2002 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda
  
  BULLET::::- "", 2010 Hong Kong film by Wong Ching-Po
  
  BULLET::::- "Hevn (Revenge)", 2015 Norwegian-Canadian film by Kjersti Steinsbø
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (2017 film), a 2017 French rape and revenge horror film directed and written by Coralie Fargeat
  
  Section::::Film and TV.:Television.
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (TV series), a 2011–15 American drama program
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" ("Alfred Hitchcock Presents"), an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" ("Survivors"), an episode of "Survivors"
  
  BULLET::::- "The Revenge" ("Seinfeld"), an episode of "Seinfeld"
   Section::::Revenge killings.
   The accomplice can be guilty of a greater offense than the perpetrator. For example, "A" and "B" discover "B"s wife in an adulterous relationship with "C". "A" says kill "C". "B" pulls his gun and shoots "C" killing him. "B" would have the benefit of provocation which would reduce his offense to manslaughter. "A", however, would be guilty of murder.
   Section::::Conventions of Revenge Plays.
  
  BULLET::::- The ghost of the murdered victim urges revenge ("Hamlet", "Spanish Tragedy"),
  
  BULLET::::- Metatheatricality
  
  BULLET::::- Madness
  
  BULLET::::- Murder
  
  BULLET::::- Cannibalism
  
  Section::::History/Development.
   Section::::Famous cases.:Mark Hopkinson.
  
  A notorious case of proxy murder was that of Mark Hopkinson, who ordered the bombing deaths of an attorney and his family in 1977 in Evanston, Wyoming. That bombing killed attorney Vincent Vehar, his wife, and one of his sons. 
  
  While in prison awaiting trial for the Vehar murders, Hopkinson ordered the torture-murder of one of his employees, Jeff Green, who was about to testify against Hopkinson in court.
   BULLET::::- "MR CYPRESS: Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country."
   The most common theme within the genre of revenge is the recurring violent murders that take place throughout the text, especially in the final act or scene. The root of the violence is usually derived from the characters' childhood development. Violent murders are seen in many texts ranging from dramas to novels. "Carrie", a 20th-century novel written by Stephen King, has examples of this theme that do occur during the final scenes. Another text that incorporates this theme is the sixteenth-century drama "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare.
   BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1928 film), an American silent drama film
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1948 film), a Mexican crime film
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1962 film) or "Wonhanui Irwoldo", South Korean film featuring Park Am
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1968 film) or "Boksu", South Korean film featuring Park No-sik
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1969 film), Italian film of 1969
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1971 film), British thriller by Sidney Hayers
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1978 film), Romanian Film
  
  BULLET::::- "Blood Feud" (1978 film), also known as "Revenge", Italian thriller by Lina Wertmüller
  
  BULLET::::- "Revenge" (1989 film) (Russian: "Mest"), Soviet film by Yermek Shinarbayev also known as "The Red Flute"
   BULLET::::- Though the desire for vengeance is always very violent, fear will drive an adversary to oppose you with even greater passion. For this reason, it is far harder to divert someone who is driven by fear than someone who is driven by hatred.
  
  BULLET::::- It's a common trick at court to stick your leg out and trip someone so that later you can help them to their feet, and thereby earn their gratitude and bind them to you.
   In Gaspar Noé's 2002 film "Irréversible", the structure was reversed, with the first act depicting the revenge before tracing back the events which led to that point. Roger Ebert argues that, by using this structure as well as a false revenge, "Irréversible" cannot be classified as an exploitation film, as no exploitation of the subject matter takes place.
   In some cases, the character is incapacitated or killed at the end of the first act, and the "revenge" is carried out by their family, as in "The Virgin Spring", "I Saw the Devil", "Nocturnal Animals", the original "The Last House on the Left", "The House of the Spirits", and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".
   In "Thyestes", Seneca portrayed the evil repercussions of murder. In order to exact revenge on his brother Thyestes for adultery with his wife, Atreus lures him to Argos under the pretext of a shared rule, but instead tricks him into eating the cooked flesh of his own children. Seneca's criminals (in this case Thyestes) are always deserving of their punishment unless they repent, since he believed the will to do evil is entirely in the hands of the individual, who must therefore be appropriately punished. This ethical logic becomes complicated, however, since the revenging murder is also a crime, transforming the revenger into a criminal, and thus prompting retribution on behalf of the punished.
   Vengeful behavior has been found across a majority of human societies. Some societies encourage vengeful behavior, which is called a feud. These societies usually regard the honor of individuals and groups as of central importance. Thus, while protecting of his reputation an avenger feels as if he restores the previous state of dignity and justice. According to Michael Ignatieff, "Revenge is a profound moral desire to keep faith with the dead, to honor their memory by taking up their cause where they left off". Thus, honor may become a heritage that passes from generation to generation. Whenever it is compromised, the affected family or community members might feel compelled to retaliate against an offender to restore the initial "balance of honor" that preceded the perceived injury. This cycle of honor might expand by bringing the family members and then the entire community of the new victim into the brand-new cycle of revenge that may pervade generations.
   Killing due to adultery traditionally fell under the provocation defense. In 1707, English Lord Chief Justice John Holt described the act of a man having sexual relations with another man's wife as "the highest invasion of property" and claimed, in regard to the aggrieved husband, that "a man cannot receive a higher provocation". 
   If a crime is caused by provocation, it is said to be committed in the heat of passion, under an irresistible urge incited by the provoking events, and without being entirely determined by reason. "'Malice aforethought' implies a mind under the sway of reason, whereas 'passion' whilst it does not imply a dethronement of reason, is the "furor brevis", which renders a man deaf to the voice of reason so that, although the act was intentional to death, it was not the result of malignity of heart, but imputable to human infirmity. Passion and malice are, therefore, inconsistent motive powers, and hence an act which proceeds from the one, cannot also proceed from the other." (Hannah v. Commonwealth, Supreme Court of Virginia 1929) Establishing Provocation can reduce a murder charge to a voluntary manslaughter charge.
   Competing harms is a legal doctrine in certain U.S. states, particularly in New England. For example, the Maine Criminal Code holds that "Conduct that the person believes to be necessary to avoid imminent physical harm to that person or another is justifiable if the desirability and urgency of avoiding such harm outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the statute defining the crime charged. The desirability and urgency of such conduct may not rest upon considerations pertaining to the morality and advisability of such statute." New Hampshire has a similar statute. The competing harms defense was unsuccessfully raised in the trial of Carter Wentworth for his role in the Clamshell Alliance's 1977 occupation of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant.
   BULLET::::- Simanthes, a court lord, allied to Abrahen
  
  BULLET::::- Selinthus, an honest, merry court lord
  
  BULLET::::- Mesithes, a court eunuch, attendant on Abilqualit
  
  BULLET::::- Osman, a captain to Tarifa
  
  BULLET::::- Gaselles, another captain
  
  BULLET::::- Caropia, wife to Mura, first beloved of Abrahen, then of Abilqualit
  
  BULLET::::- Perilinda, her woman
  
  BULLET::::- Soldiers, Mutes, Guard, Attendants
  
  Section::::Summary.
   Section::::History.
  
  Section::::History.:Formation, EPs and "The Adversary" (2006–2010).
   Other play writers of the period questioned the conventions of the genre through parody reversals of generic expectations. In Thomas Middleton's "The Revenger's Tragedy", the revenge character Vindice is a spiteful man whose pleasure in the act of revenge is what seems to be his true motivation for its fulfillment. "The Atheist's Tragedy" by Cyril Tourneur followed an anti-revenge plot by having Montferrer's ghost explicitly order his son Charlemont not to seek revenge in order to avoid the villainy of violence.
  
  Section::::Reaction.
  