Violence is Justifiable?

While reading the book half the sky and the short story the hunt, Revenge seemed to play a big role throughout the story. In the first story several women were being attacked and brutally mistreated by Yadav, a “neighborhood” villain. In the second story Mary, a young woman who was being pursued (and attempted rape) by Tehsildar. Both stories ended with the women rising up against the men by killing them. Although I am strictly against the idea of murder I believe that in at least in one of the cases I understand the purpose behind murder. With the first case I can understand the thinking behind the murder of Yadav, there was more “going on” with this case the meets the eye. This man terrorized people daily, and If the political leaders were not helping in anyway, and were going to allow him out of jail these women had no other choice but to end it. If Yadav were to have gotten out of jail he would have came back with vengeance. Their families would have been in more danger than ever. However, in Mary’s case I did not feel the same sympathy as before. I felt as though Mary enjoyed the process of murder to much for it to be justifiable. Yes, although Tehsildar attempted to rape her (which is no way justifiable) Mary’s actions throughout the short story showed her to be sort of nasty. I felt like because of her actions she was capable of murder from the beginning.