Shattered World View?

It is difficult weighing the importance of these lines to the play as a whole. Much of the violence does seem senseless. When Marcus questions whether the hunting grounds, similar to the "gloomy woods" in Ovid's Metamorphoses, have been made "by nature...for murders and rapes," he attests to how difficult it is to find reasons for all the horrific things that have already happened. As Marcus seeks reasons, he questions whether the Gods revel in such horrors and have shaped this world to facilitate such violence. I feel like these lines would have created a stir in the time in which the play was performed. Marcus's words call into question the Christian idea of a benevolent creator and the rewarding of moral behavior in the afterlife. Marcus seeks answers just the like reader does, offering an answer that for a Renaissance audience, would have made the violence even more foreign and strange.