Getting even is a very human urge. Not revenge, per se. Revenge has overtones of reckless violence and sweeping destruction.
Getting even is more like just evening the score. The urge also carries the emotional reward of justice and fairness since the perpetrator is only applying the Biblical standard, an eye for an eye.
Marisa had fewer tools at her disposal to even the score for her sister"s death. Bernhard was too powerful and the world was still at war.
She hoped to rely on the German soldiers under his command to provoke them to violence and to have them pay Bernhard back for her sister"s death.
A simple pistol shot to the head would have satisfied Marisa, and she would have preferred to be the one pulling the trigger and watching the blood burst from the bastard"s head.
But she
