Clouded by Revenge

Sadly, this will be yet another post that does not include an 8-bit game. Finding a retro game for everything is rather hard, but I'll try my best to accommodate for this later. So we've recently finished a book called Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

 It was a rather interesting read to say the least. It wasn't necessarily the best book I've read nor is it the worst. However, many of the things in the book had deep messages that could be applicable to the world that we see today. One of the main events of Wuthering Heights is the change in personality in Heathcliff. Heathcliff was bullied and abused by the adults around him as a child and the environment that he lived in most likely traumatized him. As he grew up, those events were embedded into his mind and he could never forgive the adults, thus causing an urge for revenge on the adults themselves or their children. I feel as though throughout the book, Heathcliff's undying revenge clouded his judgement and in turn damaged the people around him. Heathcliff's personality as well as thought-process reminded me of Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed 2.

 Not only were they alike in character such as their aggressive nature, short temper, and jealous characteristics, they were affected the same by revenge. Although Ezio's revenge didn't stem from a poor childhood, his actions after the change were parallel with those of Heathcliff. Ezio's revenge was planted into his mind when his father and brothers were betrayed and convicted of a coup d'état. This left him without much a family and he later discovered his family's secret-their allegiance with the Assassins. The death of Ezio's family could be compared to the loss of Heathcliff's childhood innocence, where the family represents the innocence. Ezio's revenge clouded his judgement as an assassin and thus injured the people around him. When Heathcliff changed, his personality repelled those around him and his aggressive nature caused mental and physical wounds to the the environment surround him. They both strived to execute this revenge, however, they realized in the end that the feeling at the end was not worth the journey. This could be a message that is geared toward the human population in that we shouldn't let revenge be the sole purpose of our goals because if it does, it won't be worth it.