The Impacts of Murder and Violence

Today our societies display a frightening amount of violence, children grow up with the knowledge of murders, massacres and shootings. Its safe to say that this has shaped the people who live within our societies. Which begs the question, does the recurrent knowledge of violence de humanize us even further? Much like us, Hamlet lives in a world wrought with violence. Nevertheless there is a difference, during Hamlets time dying in battle and killing for revenge was thought to be heroic.

As I listened to the inmates in the podcast, one in particular caught my eye, Danny Waller an inmate who played the ghost. Waller talks about how his experience acting as the ghost helped him connect with his actions, the people whom he had murdered. Waller says:"I took a man's life. And I felt he was talking to me through that. That he wanted me to know what I put him through."

Having heard this it made me think about all of the murderers and serial killers out there who still plague our societies. Could it be that our constant immersion in what is crude and violent have truly deprived us of our humanity and our morals?