Vielma- Todd, Sweeney Todd. And he will have his revenge.

In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street we are given sad lives and sad situations that all evolve around one man Benjamin Barker. Known only as Sweeney Todd on his return to England we immediately sympathize with the man who has been away from his family with no cause. When we learn that we also relate to him as anyone who has lost family feels to his need to return to his family with any way necessary. Upon hearing his wife and daughters fate it is clear his motives deepen to get more sinister. As we see Sweeney reminisce on his family and how to get it back we feel for Mrs. Lovett as she longs so sweetly after Sweeney Todd, as if so softly rejected. We feel for both until we see how Lovett urges Todd's so violent way of revenge as she uses his evil deeds to better herself and get closer to Todd at the same time. Burton creates the overcoming of moral revulsion with every death happening to those who are so obviously evil. Also Burton turns all the murder and cannibalism in the movie not only to justify but as reasons to comment on society. With the murders committed by Todd, Burton creates so much sadness and tragedy to Todd's life that each murder can almost be justified as Todd is so mentally and emotionally broken down. With the etracities people are doing to Todd he fights back with the killings and the audience can sympathize. In a different way the cannibalism is morally seen as just nasty, not necessarily immoral. When we see people killed and made into pies, we see it as "Those above serving those down below" as Sweeney and Lovett sing. When they sing of those they could use as meat, we are given all majors parts of London higher society in a way. We are given clergy, marines, lawyers, actor and grocers. With all of those named we are given a class in London, all higher class since they have steady lives are are stable in a modernizing London city. The creation of those higher up in society being feed to those in lower classes and killed by those in a lower class show the shift in power coming with the growth and urbanization of London. With Todd and Lovett cresting a new pyramid of power they are showing how those in the middle class began to rise up with the urbanization of London but the higher classes are beginning to become less important and powerful.