Provoked!!!

Today afternoon I had nothing to do i, I already tired a lot after looking into mathematics for my CAT exam so I decided to go for a movie off course online. My mind was in a great dilemma that what to watch i started my search and it ended up up with a movie name Provoked lead actress was Aishwarya Rai(ppl can call her Aishwarya Bachchan also !!! its all about ease).

As per normal mindset I started watching it but at the end of the movie I came to know that it was a true story, an ironically took place in 1989 in UK. So this flavor of true story forced me to think about the meaning of provoked as usual i use to forget the movie once it come to end. So what exactly provoked is ..Is it invocation of your mind over your soul or self control or is it invocation of Newton's third law(every action has a reaction and reaction start appearing just after the completion of action) for a instance in the normal human brain. If we go with the dictionary meaning then you will be aware of the meaning as incite, excite, stimulate, arouse, rouse or stir.
According to great authors of English "Provoke often merely states the consequences produced"
for example "Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath" Shakespeare. "A situation which in the country would have provoked meetings" John Galsworthy. But i never though of that it could change the state of LAW in any country .....but yes after this true story happened in UK they redefined the Provoked in their LAW the declare the verdict of first trial unsafe and went for retrial. At the the movie I came across one more interesting point and that was "This became monumental case that change the nature of british law forever , as affords the provocation defense--the acceptance of battered woman's syndrome as a legal state of mind, in accordance with the defendants who have suffered extended physical abuse at the hands of a spouse"