While a many people would like to believe that a family of murderers could not possibly be true and is an idea that would only exist in fiction, the reality of the matter is that this situation has actually happened. Although H. H. Holmes is the person who is considered to be America’s first serial killer, there is another group of individuals that are often left aside as they are almost completely forgotten. The extent of the notorious Bender family consisted of a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter. According to Miss Cellania’s article, The Bloody Benders, America’s First Serial Killers, a total of “ten bodies were ultimately found at the Bender farm, but 21 murders are attributed to the family” (Cellania). Although the family of criminals…show more content… In addition to the overall lack of self control that Macbeth has, considering that he decided to murder the courteous King Duncan when he had already known he would become the new King, but also the determined persistence of his wife, Lady Macbeth, one could see similarities in this and events that happen around them. Like many crimes committed in the real world, there is often an unseen driving force, usually in the form of a manipulative person. These stories can be heard on any of the news channels and papers, as their occurrence often frequent the front page. Multiple times in the play, Macbeth convinced himself the King Duncan was a good man who did not deserve to die, even if it meant that it would take longer for him to gain control of the kingdom. This, however, was changed as Lady Macbeth called him out on any of the slightest showings of weakness, even if it meant killing an innocent person for their own greed. She convinced him that, even though Duncan was a good man, killing him was the right thing to do. In a guilty conscience, even if it is their fault in the end, many people reinforce the idea that they did what they did because they had to, or that it was for the…show more content… Many present day films and novels both tend to take some form of inspiration from at least one of Shakespeare’s plays. In particular, the satirical carnage of Titus Andronicus is similar to that of what is to be expected in a classic slasher film, or any horror film, for that matter. These films, in part, were almost meant to be as much of an unnecessarily brutal slaughtering of random people as they were to induce fear among the audience; which is then comparable to the inhumane depictions that are held within the bard’s dark humored, and similarly barbarous work of fiction. The satire part of it came into play with, “his contemporaries’ fondness for gore and revenge plays...When we compare the Elizabethan love of gore with that of today (note the blood and guts in so many contemporary horror movies), we realize that Elizabethan bloodlust was not unique to their time” (Analysis of ‘Titus Andronicus’). Ironically, this being that case, a similar satire could be written in response to the ideals of the world today, as it persists even now. Certain games, such as Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto, and Dead Rising only further the fact that society has, is, and will continue to be fueled by these forms of entertainment, despite the percentage showing a distaste toward
