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What do we learn from The vendetta stories consisting of three short stories that are set in Corsica, The Vendetta, A Corsican Bandit and Mateo Falcone.
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What do we learn from the writers of the vendetta stories about another culture? The vendetta stories consist of three short stories that are set in Corsica, The Vendetta, A Corsican Bandit and Mateo Falcone. They were written in the 19th Century by Guy de Maupassant and Prosper Mérimée. These stories feature revenge as the main theme, and from it one can learn many things about the distant culture of Corsica. Through the words of the author one may extract many tidbits of information that helps us as readers to form an idea of Corsica. There are some traditions of Corsica that seem blood thirsty at first, such as the idea of mirror punishment (lex talionis), but the authors de Maupassant and Mérimée reveal the deep logic behind it. The reader learns through the stories of a different society, one that is a patriarch one, where males rule. There are many...
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