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I'd like to read or watch one of those stories, just once, so I can decide if I actually like it. Cause it's a cheap way of showing how a character has grown, they started off wanting revenge and now they've transcended that and see how far they've gone on their arc? I liked the bit in Princess Bride so maybe it'd be good in general
The House of the Spirits has characters that fit this description to a tee. The book was written by Isabel Allende, a cousin of Salvador Allende, and is a stylized retelling of life through the transition in Chilean politics post-colonialism through Salvador Allende to Pinochet.
The book ends with the character and narrator Alba saying that, despite previously organizing for Allende's socialist party, and getting raped by the military coup forces after, she will not seek vengeance on those who have injured her, choosing to believe in the hope that one day the human cycle of hate and revenge will be broken.
Yes, let me lie down and let myself get run over by capitalists because then maybe they won't also run over my children.
Because of her simplistic writing on 'cycle of violence bad' while ignoring Marxist analysis, Isabel Allende seems to be a darling in liberal circles. Obama gave her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.