The Theme of Revenge in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game (2006)

Abstract

This extended paper is provided to explore the theme of revenge in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game (2006). The acts of avenge have been a significant theme in several literary works along with themes of love and death, from Greek tragedies to European literature with the works of Shakespeare, to world literature with such works of Dostoevsky. Those writers are ideologically and historically different. They have examined the same subject [revenge] with similar ‘passion, complexity and concern’. Even contemporary Arabic writers in Diaspora write such works that explore avenge. Rawi Hage, the Lebanese-Canadian writer, is amongst whose novels involve the theme of vengeance. The main concern of this paper is to find out how in such radical circumstances when power abused, where individuals and groups have been suffered from social injustice and unfairness of justice avenge becomes the only solution to take back justice and honor.