Cartoon Violence

Cartoon Violence

Beronica Martinez

HUMM/266

November 8, 2010

Lori Robertson

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Cartoon Violence

Many forms of art exist all around the world, such as paintings, sculptures, music, and videos. Art influences people and communities in many ways including the types of legal and moral issues involving art and its targeted audience. One form of art in particular is cartoons. Many types of cartoons are available like animated people, animated animals, and cartoons just for children and even cartoons for adults, which are mostly referred to as anime. Adult cartoons are usually extremely violent or contain high sexual content. Many issues involving violence in cartoons are unnoticeable such as desensitizing children, increasing their aggressiveness, and decreasing their fear of becoming victims in real life.

All children are influenced by what they see in their daily television shows and when these happen to be violent cartoons they become negatively affected. Cartoons are presented to children with colorful and goofy characters but many of these shows have a lot of violence portrayed in them. Young children do not understand the morals and ethical issues in these cartoons and are unable to depict what is reality and what is fantasy. Of course, it is fantasy but when children are unable to distinguish the difference between the two they may try to carry out an act they have seen while viewing the show because they found it humorous and entertaining. For example, a child being violent at school thinking it is okay to beat up a classmate over a girl when that child has been watching too much Popeye. This cartoon portrays violent acts between Popeye and Bruno often fighting over Olive Oil but also tries to influence children to eat spinach. The violent acts to the persuasion of children eating spinach does not measure out. Although parents allow their children to watch this cartoon because, they do not believe it is...