The Shining Twins

The twins in stephen king's horror film: The Shining, tell a very unfortunate tale. Legend has that a father murdered his family, the twins' family, in room 237 in the Stanley hotel: the setting of the film. The twins role is very minute; the two alleged apparitions of young girls appear, in a jump-scare fashion, when one of the main characters roams the hotel hallways. Along with only appearing a few times, the twins are restricted to only repeating one phrase: "come play with us". In Medea, the children play a similar. Medea's children are very minor characters, only really speaking or appearing in the end of the play, where Medea murders her children. I find that the fact two pairs in Medea and The Shining share a similar fate, connects them in some way. in The shinning, the twins are murder by their deranged father; in Medea, the boys are killed by their vengeful mother. The pairs are also seemingly invisible in both plots, but contribute to the telling of the story. Though the twins only appear a few times, their murder influences the actions of the Shinning's main characters. The boys murder, in Medea, act as an important plot point of Medea's story. The two pairs, the children in Medea and the Twins in the Shining, have minute roles but influence through their silence.