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| Character | Tamora | |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Persuasive, Malicious/scheming | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Tragedy, Horror | |
| Description | Tamora asks her sons to kill Bassianus and Lavinia | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 3 | |
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.
The first thing that Aaron and Tamora plan to do is to kill Bassianus and frame Titus' sons for the murder. In this scene Aaron and Tamora are alone in the forest. Tamora urges Aaron to make love to her but Aaron can only think about revenge. Bassianus and Lavinia spot them and insult Tamora for her behavior. Demetrius and Chiron, Tamora's sons, arrive and Tamora tells them that Bassianus and Lavinia dragged her there to kill her. She asks them to revenge her and they stab Bassianus to death.
The first thing that Aaron and Tamora plan to do is to kill Bassianus and frame Titus' sons for the murder. In this scene Aaron and Tamora are alone in the forest. Tamora urges Aaron to make love to her but Aaron can only think about revenge. Bassianus and Lavinia spot them and insult Tamora for her behavior. Demetrius and Chiron, Tamora's sons, arrive and Tamora tells them that Bassianus and Lavinia dragged her there to kill her. She asks them to revenge her and they stab Bassianus to death.
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| TAMORA Have I not reason, think you, to look pale? These two have 'ticed me hither to this place: A barren detested vale, you see it is; The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe: Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds, Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven: And when they show'd me this abhorred pit, They told me, here, at dead time of the night, A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes, Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins, Would make such fearful and confused cries As any mortal body hearing it Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly. No sooner had they told this hellish tale, But straight they told me they would bind me here Unto the body of a dismal yew, And leave me to this miserable death: And then they call'd me foul adulteress, Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms That ever ear did hear to such effect: And, had you not by wondrous fortune come, This vengeance on me had they executed. Revenge it, as you love your mother's life, Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children. |
