Medea and Romeo and Juliet Term Paper

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This familial violence represents the violence of the culture on a larger scale. Euripides wants to shock the audience in order to show that violence should not be acceptable in any form what so ever.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet also has an anti-violence message. The unlawful fighting and murdering which happens between the city's largest and most powerful families leads to the death of the innocent Romeo and Juliet. The death of the young lovers aims to show the audience that a universal ideology of unchecked violence can only lead to more pain and suffering.
However, through Romeo and Juliet's death, the violence within the context of the play is curbed. Both families come to see the error of their ways, despite this realization being much too late to save their children. At the end, the play makes it clear that violence is in now way morally acceptable, despite many melodramatists attempt to make it so in modern cinema history. Violence always breeds more violence......

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