What does the quote, “in great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake.” mean?
Yea pretty much. Violence scenes aren’t there in good literature so that we can ooh and ahh over its gory contents. There’s always some kind of message that the author wants to send us. It might be because the author wants to establish how impulsive a character might be, or they want to move the plot along, or to portray how unecessary violence really is in real life. You notice that all the swordfighting and suicides in Shakespeare’s work always have some sort of deeper meanings to it.
