However, we will say that The Libation Bearers is part of a trilogy of tragedies, featuring a boy who fulfils his prophecy by avenging his father's death (and also happens to have a scar on his head).
According to Saxo, Ragnar comes to Norway to avenge the death of his grandfather and is greeted by a number of women dressed as men who volunteer to help him fight.
Helena set out to avenge for her mom’s death, making a costume and fashioning some weapons out of what her parents had -- one of which included her crossbow, which became her signature
In The Kreutzer Sonata there is not even this " ray of light" . It is a ferocious piece of work; Tolstoy lashes out at society like a wounded beast avenging itself for what it has suffered.