If love makes the world go round, surely
revenge would make it stop in its axis?
Both are powerful emotions—though love is
a positive force and revenge its complete antithesis. And like every negative
force revenge can provide huge motivation. Especially when you are a victim of
injustice. After all, none other than William Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of
Venice, “…if you wrong us,
shall we not revenge?”
Think about the times you were bullied at
school or college and your heart was filled with hatred and a need for revenge?
Or when the cute boy you had a huge crush on didn’t give you the time of the
day and chose another girl instead? Yes, that made you want revenge too!
;) But life is full of little injustices that we get over and move on. What if
something so terrible was done to you that your life changed forever, would you
be able to turn the other cheek? It’s only human to harbour hatred and ill-will
against a person who has harmed you.
On the other hand, the real power of love
lies not just in its ability to make a person strive for his/her beloved’s
affections but to truly change himself/herself for the better. Imagine how much
more powerful that can be. And yet it is so difficult to go with the positive
force.
One would think that love and revenge
wouldn’t mix in a story. Yet, readers all over the world have rooted for
romance stories with revenge as a theme. The one thing that revenge and
love have in common is passion. You can’t imagine either emotion without passion.
And that’s what makes for a good page-turning read till you reach the Happy
Ever After ending.
So it was only fitting that having won the
Passions Aspiring Authors Auditions, I wanted to write a story with tons of
passion in it. As a reader who loves to read ‘revenge stories’ my first choice
for theme was—you guessed it!—revenge. My Heroine, Maya, is a strong-willed
woman who will do anything to bring down the person who has ruined her family.
Even if that means marrying Krish, the son of her enemy. But soon she falls in
love with Krish….And thus begins her dilemma. Will her love for Krish override
her need for revenge? How will she reconcile her love with her desire for
justice?
Do you love a romance story with a dash of
revenge in it? Or do you hate it? Would love to hear from you!
