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"An eye for an eye makes the world go blind"
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“An eye for an eye makes the world go blind.” Discuss in relevance to recent events. Two guys were always engaged in bitter rivalry. The cause for this rivalry – a girl. Both these guys fought against one another to get the eventually the luckier one won her heart. But the ill fortuned one didn’t give up. He mind started working as crookedly as it could. He thought of a devious scheme to dispose of his foe. He had a grandly sinister plan. One day, he set out to accomplish his plan. The next day morning, the entire media was buzzing. The news of a person being murdered was always a cause for publicity. The murdered, not surprisingly was the lucky man. Forensic examinations revealed that he had been poisoned. All evidence pointed towards the ill fortuned man. His motive was extremely conspicuous. He was trialed, found to be guilty, and was sentenced to capital punishment. The only one left in tears was the girl. Such is the tragic end to any story beleaguered with revenge and malice. Nor do people learn from such stories. In this context also pertinent is the saying “An eye for an eye makes the world go blind.” I pluck your one eye out and in retaliation you gouge one of mine out. I go for the second round of fire and pull out your last eye. You, overwhelmed with fury, and remove my last eye. The end result – two blind people. I fear that that is only the surface meaning of a metaphorical quote which has so much to teach us. If one might remember, the infamous quote mentioned above was said by the venerable Mahatma Gandhi when he saw the atrocities committed during the partition in 1947. India was divided into India and Pakistan based Muslims and Hindus (The people belonging to these religions can be seen as an allusion to the ‘two eyes’). The Muslims would take part in incursions into Hindu territory and cause disruption and the Hindus would also do likewise.
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