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Vendetta Two wrongs never make a right. Everyone from the youngest child to the oldest adult would say that revenge is wrong. In the short story ‘Vendetta’ the writer Guy De Maupassant skilfully makes us totally ignore this simple and obvious rule. He leads us to support a cruel and vicious act of revenge and feel no pity for the victim. He accomplishes this by expertly using setting, characterisation, structure and plot. 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