Williams-It's Man Eats Man World

     Sweeney Todd effectively makes the viewer stop and think about the logistics of cannibalism and forces the viewer to feel agree with Lovett's and Todd's choice of revenge. I feel like Burton helps the audience overcome people's moral disgust by giving Todd a truly tragic back story. His wife and daughter was stolen from him and he falsely accused and sent to prison for 16 years. He is justified to want revenge.
      London is the perfect example of the industrial revolution during the victorian era, and how people moved from the country to the city to get a better a living. In the end, a reverse situation happens. The city becomes overpopulated and the country becomes a sign of wealth and leisure. The city is overwrought with men and women trying to climb their way to the top no matter the cost to others or themselves. London has become as Sweeney states "a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it, and its morals aren't worth what a pin can spit." It seems like all the bad and the ugly of the world has congregated in London, and it would be fair if Todd and Lovett got rid of them. They take it upon themselves to rid the broken even if themselves are mentally deranged.          
    However as the movie goes along, it is not until the end most viewers feel the need to morally wrong with Todd's approach for cleansing London. I mean,"it's man devouring man,and who are [they] to deny it in" their shop?. There logic is technically valid. People tear others down, they cheat, they lie, and they kill. Why is it so bad that they give what the people actually do in the streets into their meat pies. This is why this musical is so effective. Burton makes you questions your morals in the case of justice and vengeance.