The introduction to ‘Vendetta’ is one that is very striking. The picture that it conjures up in your mind is of a sleepy little village on the side of a mountain. However, you soon learn that it is a story of bloody murder and revenge. Phrases like “deadly straits” “barren coasts” and “harassed by restless winds” shows a very lonely and harsh scene.

An especially horrific scene is an earlier on where the mothers’ dead son is taken to her by passers by. There is a loneliness and strange stillness that hints at the enormity of emotions felt by the mother as the she looks upon her dead son. The reader hasn’t learnt anything about the relationship between the mother and son but you can clearly tell the terrifying shock felt by the mother Saverini. “The old mother shed no tears b

“Tear him! Tear him!” is the command Saverini uses to set her dog upon Nicolas Ravolti. “ For some moments he struggled. Then he lay still, while Semillante (Saverinis dog) tore his throat to shreds.” This adds an extra horror idea. A sense of relief is felt by the reader when at last the old women manages to kill her enemy in an even more terrible and gory way than that of her son.

There is another example of irony when Saverini goes to church again “Saverini went to confession and communion in an ecstasy of devotion”. This makes us impatient of what is to come and adds to our picture of the character. It is very unusual that she can have such contradictory traits.

Some topics in this essay:
De Maupassant, Nicholas Ravolati, Semillante Saverinis, , Nicolas Ravolti, de maupassant, dead son, “the mother, act revenge, idea vindictive ferocity”, “the mother idea, mother idea vindictive, death son, mother idea, vindictive ferocity”, idea vindictive,