A Vendetta :: English Literature

A VendettaA Short Story will typically contain solo a few characters. The Plotwill usually be concerned with just one theme. These short stories arewritten by a very famous author, Guy de Maupassant. Guy de Maupassantwas born in France in 1850.Maupassant developed to be one of the mostfamous short story writers of all time.In the short story A Vendetta the title is a glimpse into the plotof the story, telling us that that there is a vendetta involved butdoesnt reveal the character of the vendetta and its aims. There are 3main characters in the story, they are, Widow Saverini, Frisky thedog, and Nicolas Ravolati.The story is about, an assassin Nicolas Ravolati kills WidowSaverinis son Antoine during a quarrel and everyplace the dead body of herson Widow Saverini swears vengance. She is unable to sleep until shehas an idea. She trains her dog Frisky to attack a dummy, by starvingher of food and hiding sausage balloon inside the dummys torso. The widowtakes the dog to Nicolas Sardini an hideout and at the widows wordthe dog kills Nicolas Ravolati.The moral of the story is that revenge can become destructive and neurotic if we allow it to do so. Maupassant expresses this moralwhen, In the story he talks about the Widow Saverini being unable tosleep or make ease until she can complete this vendetta of when shesleeps soundly.During this story Guy de Maupassant uses several different literarytechniques to help express his views and to help explain and tell thestory.He uses incarnation when describing the wind and sea on the coastof Bonifacio. He uses the sentence The wind harasses the searemorselessly. The words harasses and remorselessly are bothhuman characteristics it is as if Guy de Maupassant is verbalism the windhas no conscience.Maupassant uses detailed description of the town Bonifacio, wherethe story is set, to get across the brutality and evil to come lateron in the story.He also uses symbolism and imagery like A gash in the cliffs, Thisrepresents the ga shes in the body of Antoine after the firstassassination, as does the fiction used at the start of the story,Patches of whitish foam round the black tips of the countless reefs,look like torn sheets drifting on the surface of the water. This tome is the most important simile in the whole story because it sets themood and the scene of the horrific events to come, to continue thescenery being set as an inhospitable place Maupassant uses the word