An Eye, For An Eye?

Njal's Saga is a very interesting book because as it says many times in the book, family remembers taking revenge on each other. This very cliche saying, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is a bad influence and I fint it quite essential to my topic. It is saying if someone takes an eye from you well then you have the right to take an eye from them. This maxim is based on the idea of; revenge. As we are shown there are many cases in which a family member is decieved and feels his responsibility to take action make that person feel remorse for his wrong doing and in doing this awful deed kills his/her close compaion.

I believe this attitude towards life can lead you to many regretful moments and thoughts. If someones first reaction was to make somones life a living nightmare everytime that person was double-crossed or decieved then we would live in a world of hate, greed, and obstruction. I mean its not very far from the world we really live in, no matter how much we try to teach those who make our "hogar" a phycological disoriented chaotic environment, those people have a mind set already that their going to follow that path that they have chosen. Njal's Saga is a perfect example family hatred in that family member, blood relatives have the mentality, the spine to kill one of their own. I woulnt be able to percieve the thought yet actually perfoming the mishivious act.