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| Character | Titus Andronicus | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Descriptive, Malicious/scheming | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Tragedy, Horror | |
| Description | Titus Andronicus kills Chiron and Demetrius | |
| Location | ACT V, Scene 2 | |
Summary
The play starts after the death of the emperor of Rome. His two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, fight to become the next emperor. The Tribune of Rome (Marcus Andronicus), however, elects Titus Andronicus, a Roman general, as emperor. Titus Andronicus has just spent ten years fighting in a war to protect Rome and has captured the Queen of the Goths, Tamora, her three sons and her lover Aaron. Following a Roman custom, Titus Andronicus sacrifices Tamora's oldest son to honor all Titus' sons who died in the war. Titus Andronicus refuses to become the next emperor and passes the title to Saturninus. To prove his gratitude Saturninus marries Lavinia, Titus' daughter. Lavinia, however, is already bethothed to Bassinus and decides to flee. Humiliated, Saturninus decides to marry Tamora who now will seek revenge against Titus Andronicus.
Tamora's revenge consists in having Bassianus killed and framing Titus Andronicus' sons for it. His sons are beheaded. She has her sons Chiron and Demetrius rape Lavinia. They cut off her hands and tongue so that she cannot reveal who raped her. Lucius, Titus' last surviving son, is banished and he seeks the alliance of the Goths against Rome. Because of all his misfortunes Titus Andronicus starts acting oddly and everybody assumes that he is gone mad.
Tamora takes advantage of it by pretending to be the figure of Revenge. She promises to help him if he stops his son Lucius from attacking Rome. Titus is not mad though and he manages to capture Tamora's sons, Chiron and Demetrius. In this monologue he slits their throats and plans to grind their bones to dust and mix it with their blood to make a pie that he will serve to their mother...
Tamora's revenge consists in having Bassianus killed and framing Titus Andronicus' sons for it. His sons are beheaded. She has her sons Chiron and Demetrius rape Lavinia. They cut off her hands and tongue so that she cannot reveal who raped her. Lucius, Titus' last surviving son, is banished and he seeks the alliance of the Goths against Rome. Because of all his misfortunes Titus Andronicus starts acting oddly and everybody assumes that he is gone mad.
Tamora takes advantage of it by pretending to be the figure of Revenge. She promises to help him if he stops his son Lucius from attacking Rome. Titus is not mad though and he manages to capture Tamora's sons, Chiron and Demetrius. In this monologue he slits their throats and plans to grind their bones to dust and mix it with their blood to make a pie that he will serve to their mother...
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| TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound. Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me; But let them hear what fearful words I utter. O villains, Chiron and Demetrius! Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud, This goodly summer with your winter mix'd. You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death, My hand cut off and made a merry jest; Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity, Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced. What would you say, if I should let you speak? Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace. Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you. This one hand yet is left to cut your throats, Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold The basin that receives your guilty blood. You know your mother means to feast with me, And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad: Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust And with your blood and it I'll make a paste, And of the paste a coffin I will rear And make two pasties of your shameful heads, And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam, Like to the earth swallow her own increase. This is the feast that I have bid her to, And this the banquet she shall surfeit on; For worse than Philomel you used my daughter, And worse than Progne I will be revenged: And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come, [He cuts their throats] Receive the blood: and when that they are dead, Let me go grind their bones to powder small And with this hateful liquor temper it; And in that paste let their vile heads be baked. Come, come, be every one officious To make this banquet; which I wish may prove More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook, And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes. |
