Revenge is a concept that has not changed. The only thing that does change is people and how they enact their revenge against those who have hurt them. Revenge is a method that anyone from the poor to royalty used to regain honor or hurt someone who shamed them. Honor is extremely important no matter where you are in the world, so for anything to tarnish reputation or honor is unacceptable. Giovanni Boccaccio makes multiple examples in his stories where the characters get shamed so they extract revenge in brilliant ways. The methodology of revenge has changed since the 1350’s when Boccaccio’s stories take place in Italy. A great focus is different types of revenge. Revenge may have been useful when honor and titles were important to social standing, but today revenge has changed and can often be harmful. …show more content…
But no matter what a family’s financial status was they all have multiple things in common. One thing that is common among all classes of people is honor and reputation. A family’s name held a lot of influence that a man and his family could build up and use over their lifetime. A name’s use and meaning has changed. A man worked hard, and built up his reputation and his name so that everyone recognized it. Many times, people wouldn’t leave the retaliation of crimes against them to the law, instead, they would take revenge into their own hands to punish those who did them wrong and gain back their family’s honor. Handing over a case to the law enforcement would create too much commotion and would make the situation worse and a family’s reputation could be ruined even