Buddy's practical jokes, essentially vindictive, became for a time inseparable from pure revenge.
For pure revenge, if nothing else.
What's fascinating about "Titus Andronicus" is its obsession with pure revenge.
For himself he wanted revenge, pure and simple: the exact nature of Nick's plots and alliances changed nothing.
The man wants revenge, pure and simple, and he's working logically through the family, saving Stone until last.
Some of the background is pure physical revenge.
It was about revenge, pure and simple.
What you're after is revenge, pure and simple.
It is just pure revenge.
In that case, the motive was pure revenge.