.] a crime against the state” (6). Modern interest in portrayals of revenge, that is, may
well be born of concern for losing one’s personal ability to right matters of wrong as one
is asked to cede powers to a not altogether trustworthy, but growing, central authority.
Bowers sums that, in such times, some “individuals continued to value their own
privileges far more than the common weal” (6). Even in the face of religious demands
for social and spiritual order, Bowers writes, “it would be grave error to neglect the
stubborn, though not always ar X