Review of Tarantino's Kill Bill, Volume 1
In the Shakespearean tragedy, Hamlet, when Laertes returns to Elsinore to find his sister, Ophelia, gone mad and his father, Polonius, murdered by the hands of young Hamlet, King Claudius consoles him with dark ideas: "And where the offense is, let the great axe fall."
Laertes vengeance on Hamlet, plotted by the King to rid himself of Hamlet to ensure that no one discovers he killed the previous King, brings about his own demise and the demise of Hamlet, the Queen, Claudius, and their country. Indeed, revenge is a dangerous and degenerative business. It turns one mad to the point that one is consumed by it.
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