Motif
revenge harms the avenger
revenge_harms_the_avenger
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE APE / THE EAGLE AND THE COCKS / THE ESCAPED JACKDAW / THE FARMER AND THE FOX; lines 3167-3178 confidence: high
To get revenge, the farmer ties tow to the fox’s tail, sets it on fire, and lets the fox go.
The farmer’s revenge against the fox directly leads to the destruction of his own ripe harvest, and the moral explicitly frames revenge as two-edged.
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