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Essay / Importance of Chaos In "Five Oranges" by John Arthur Doyle...
We, as a people, universally say that revenge is bad because it solves nothing and most cases make things worse . However, this does not necessarily mean that all forms of revenge are bad. In many cases this seems justified. For example, in “Taken,” Liam Neison’s character goes on a rampage trying to save his daughter from a Russian gang of sex traffickers. As an audience, we had no problem with that, because we thought these Russians deserved to get punched in the throat. This explains to me that not only do we, as a society, believe in order and justice. We also see the fairness and self-satisfaction of revenge. Doyle attempts to display this idea in the “Five Orange Pips”. At the conclusion of the short story, Holmes explains his findings to Watson and mentions: "We have heard at last that somewhere far out in the Atlantic, a...boat was seen rocking in the trough of a wave, with the letters “L.S..” engraved on it, and that is all we will ever know about the fate of the Lone Star. (page 20). This provides satisfaction to the reader, knowing that these murderers got what they deserved makes the audience feel relieved. If we think from a moral point of view, this seems barbaric, because if humanity were truly masters of order and justice, we would derive no satisfaction from the fact that men were killed on a field of battle.