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Titus Andronicus (Theatre)
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As the play is Older Than Steam and most twists in Shakespeare's plots are now widely known, all spoilers on this page are unmarked.The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus is considered to be William Shakespeare's first tragedy. It is set in The Roman Empire, albeit a very fantastic and fictional version that is melange of different periods and settings. Unlike his other Roman plays, it doesn't use real historical figures as characters. It is noted to have been produced and performed by 1594. It is arguably one of the few Shakespeare plays (alongside A Midsummer Night's Dream and perhaps The Tempest) that is entirely original to Shakespearenote There is in addition to the play, a prose book on Titus Andronicus, and a popular ballad that has survived, and all three are dated to 1594, but nobody knows for sure whether the play, the prose, or the ballad came first, and which came second, and so on. Some scholars believe that the first parts of the play were co-written by George Peele, but this hypothesis is disputed.At the start of the play, there is a Succession Crisis for the Imperial Throne. The brothers Saturninus and Bassianus compete for the crown, seeking the support and backing of the popular general Titus Andronicus, currently on campaign against the Goths. When Titus returns from his campaign, he brings as captives Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, her servant Aaron the Moor, and her sons Chiron, Demetrius and Alarbus. He has lost all but four of his twenty-five sons in the war with the Goths. On arriving in Rome, to honour his dead sons' spirits, Titus sacrifices Tamora's eldest son, Alarbus. Titus declines the Crown and backs Saturninus, consenting to a marriage alliance between the new Emperor and his daughter Lavinia. Lavinia is already betrothed to Bassianus, and the latter elopes with her. Her brothers support Bassianus against their father's wishes, and in a scuffle, Titus kills one of his own sons, Mutius. In the wake of this, Saturninus announces that he will wed the captive Queen Tamora, who counsels pardon and peace. But now having suddenly gone from captive to queen, she seeks to plot her revenge on the House of Andronicus, aided in part by the scheming Aaron the Moor, who has his own agenda and drive. The resulting Gambit Pileup will bring rot and ruin to Rome itself.This is one of Shakespeare's most controversial and contentious plays, albeit for different reasons than say, The Merchant of Venice, owing less to its subject matter, and more to its style, presentation, and heavy sex and violence. It was rarely performed and revived until the second half of the 20th Century, when Peter Brook in 1955 mounted a famous production starring Laurence Olivier. More recently, it was adapted by Julie Taymor under the title Titus, with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Lavinia becomes the victim of this. Although she is seen as Defiled Forever, it is still regarded as a heinous crime. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Aaron. In a monologue near the end he states that he did "a thousand dreadful things" and the only thing he regrets that he cannot do "ten thousand more". His only virtue is that he loves his child and does what he can to save him in a play where so many other characters treat their own offspring as disposable pawns. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: As mentioned above, there are only about three characters who don’t commit any moral atrocities over the course of the play, and one of them is a baby. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: The infamous line "I have done thy mother." | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: The mainspring that drives the entire plot. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Titus goes back and forth, he kills one of his sons for dishonoring the family but goes into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge over his other children. Aaron, after his son is born. Of course, since this is Aaron, his plan to protect his son mostly consists of murdering people. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Titus's Chiron and Demetrius pies (which he feeds to their unknowing mother, Tamora). | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: According to some scholars and directors, anyway. Still, even when it's been successfully staged this way, it's a very dark comedy at best. Some of the comedy would be intentional since Titus Andronicus goes Laughing Mad and admits that he's so sunk in grief that he can't take it seriously anymore, and of course in the scene of his revenge, the stage directions spell out that he's dressed as a chef and Saturninus and Tamora ask him why he's dressed like that. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: Saturninus, in view of the fact that this play draws heavily from Metamorphoses, the first book of which describes "Saturn's golden age" and equates Saturn's overthrow with a fall into darker times, whereas here it is the ascension of Saturninus that corresponds with the beginning of a (more) evil time. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Marcus Andronicus provides a voice of reason against his brother's madness and the rest of his family's despair. Or at least tries to. | |
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Genre Blindness | |
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Genre Blindness: Chiron and Demetrius should have known that preventing Lavinia from speaking or writing wouldn't be enough to stop her from accusing them; Philomela didn't need a tongue to tell her sister what had happened to her, and Io didn't even need hands... | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: There was no Roman emperor who fought a war against the Goths and dragged a captive Gothic princess back to Rome, and a Tribune (a political office from the era of the Roman Republic) wouldn't have served alongside the emperor. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Titus goes back and forth, he kills one of his sons for dishonoring the family but goes into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge over his other children. | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision: Titus has to choose between his hand and his sons. He cuts off his hand only to have his sons killed anyway. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Due to the play's Antiquated Linguistics (to twenty-first-century sensibilities) and the use of "to do" meaning "to have sex with" still having colloquial connotations (even to twenty-first-century sensibilities), "Villain, I have done thy mother" qualifies as this. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Aaron is somehow scarier than the other villains. And he's a Moor, albeit he loves his own son, and he's also a sly, ironic, trickster character. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Chiron and Demetrius have no compunctions about raping and dismembering Lavinia or attempting to kill Aaron's baby son, but they are still taken aback when Aaron murders the nurse. Aaron, for his part, has no compunctions about murdering the nurse (and practically every other misdeed in the play), but he'll also fight to the death to save his son's life. Meanwhile, upon learning that their mother has given birth to a son that is obviously Aaron's and not Saturninus's - meaning she will be killed for treason if this is found out - their immediate instinct is to kill the child to destroy the evidence. Aaron, one of the most manipulative and ruthless characters in the story, isn't just horrified that it's his own son they're talking about, but remarks in horror that they would seriously kill their own half-brother. This also makes Aaron a foil for Titus, who would gladly kill his own son if he felt he committed treason against Rome. Even Saturninus has a moment of this in Act V, being abjectly horrified when Titus kills Lavinia. On learning that it was Chiron and Demetrius who raped and mutilated her, he orders them brought forth out of a seemingly-sincere desire to punish them. However... | |
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I Banged Your Mom | |
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I Banged Your Mom: Yes. Really! | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex machina: Discussed but averted. In Act 4,Scene 3, Titus fires arrows at the sun in order to ask the Gods to send Justice, since "there’s no justice in Earth nor hell." However, the gods do not show up, and the play ends with everyone except Lucius dead. This scene might be a reference to an episode in the adventures of Herakles, where he fires an arrow at the sun and is assisted. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Saturninus shows absolutely no gratitude towards Titus even though it was Titus who acted as kingmaker in Saturninus's disputed claim to the throne with his brother Bassianus, not to mention for Titus' lifelong service and sacrifice as a soldier. The Roman Senate and Tribunes are equally ungrateful towards Titus, as Titus laments and pleas for his two wrongfully accused sons' lives to no effect: | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The rape and mutilation of Lavinia is not shown onstage, but the way Chiron and Demetrius taunt her about it after the fact is horrifying. Aaron being buried up to his neck in the sand and left to die. | |
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Honor-Related Abuse | |
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Honor-Related Abuse: Titus kills his daughter Lavinia immediately on achieving vengeance for her rape and mutilation. It can be played as a Mercy Kill due to her disability and trauma, but his line invokes her "shame" as the motive. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Poor Lavinia, about the only innocent character in the play, becomes the victim of rape, dismemberment, being regarded as Defiled Forever, and eventually being murdered by her own father out of "shame". | |
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Knight Templar Parent | |
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Knight Templar Parent: Tamora. She will come after you and your children! Mind you, Titus is even worse — at least Tamora didn't kill her own children, whereas Titus killed his son Mutius and his daughter Lavinia. | |
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Chocolate Baby | |
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Chocolate Baby: Tamora and Aaron have one, much to Chiron and Demetrius' displeasure. | |
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Nature Adores a Virgin | |
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Nature Adores a Virgin: Lavinia is loved by all until she goes for a walk in the woods. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Aaron loves his baby son. Tamora also genuinely loves all three of her sons. | |
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Cynicism Catalyst | |
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Cynicism Catalyst: At the start of the play, twenty-one of Titus' 25 sons are dead. It's the mutilation of Lavinia, though, that tips him over the edge into madness, angst, and atheism. | |
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Trauma Conga Line | |
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Trauma Conga Line: Titus and his family is subjected to this. By the end of the play, it's hard to blame the guy for snapping. | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings: Titus had 25 sons and one daughter. But by the end of the play, he's down to one son. | |
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Ambiguous Time Period | |
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Ambiguous Time Period: The chronology of the tragedies puts this play "during the reign of a fictional (late?) Roman emperor" with the plays it falls between being Cymbeline, early first century AD, and Hamlet, c. ninth-tenth century AD. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Alarbus appears for a few seconds and is led off to be sacrificed without a line. Yet it is largely this event which triggers Tamora's (and thus Titus') Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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Defiled Forever | |
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Defiled Forever: Lavinia is seen this way after becoming the victim of rape, ultimately leading to her honor-related killing. Weirdly enough, Titus Andronicus cites the case of Verginia, an incident in the early Republic from Titus Livy's Ab urbe condita who was killed by her father in fear of a Patrician pulling Droit du Seigneur, whereas Titus kills her after the rape, and after she aids his revenge. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Evil Matriarch: Tamora, who is motivated by the deaths of some of her sons, and uses her living sons as her tools of vengeance. | |
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served | |
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: Titus serves Tamora her own sons in revenge for Lavinia. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: This is one of the darkest Shakespeare plays, where there are arguably about three good characters (all of them children): Lavinia, Young Lucius, and Aaron's baby. Saturninus and Bassianus were brothers who would have fought a Civil War against each other had it not been for Titus Andronicus pulling a Kingmaker Scenario. Titus Andronicus is a pious Roman war hero: which means killing and subjugating Goths, performing Human Sacrifice of a captive son of the enemy queen, and killing one of his own sons, Mutius, in the first act. Then he kills his own daughter Lavinia, because she is Defiled Forever, but does so only after she helps him commit and aid his revenge. And in the end Titus, as part of his revenge, appoints one of his surviving sons to raise an army among the very Goths he subjugated to march on Rome, which politically marks him out to be just as much a renegade and warlord as the rest of the cast. Tamora, Aaron, Chiron, and Demetrius cross the line early on when they rape and mutilate Lavinia. But all of them have some virtues, with Aaron going out of his way to save his son, and Chiron and Demetrius, after some threats and convincing, agree to help save their half-brother. | |
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Civil War | |
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Saturninus and Bassianus were brothers who would have fought a Civil War against each other had it not been for Titus Andronicus pulling a Kingmaker Scenario. Titus Andronicus is a pious Roman war hero: which means killing and subjugating Goths, performing Human Sacrifice of a captive son of the enemy queen, and killing one of his own sons, Mutius, in the first act. Then he kills his own daughter Lavinia, because she is Defiled Forever, but does so only after she helps him commit and aid his revenge. And in the end Titus, as part of his revenge, appoints one of his surviving sons to raise an army among the very Goths he subjugated to march on Rome, which politically marks him out to be just as much a renegade and warlord as the rest of the cast. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Between them and Titus, they make a Big Bad Ensemble. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Titus is even more disgusted by the fact that Chiron and Demetrius raped Lavinia than by the fact that they left her hideously mutilated: | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: The majority of the victims in the play are cruel people to begin with (except Lavinia and Bassianus). Chiron and Demetrius deserve special mention, albeit they do get one redeeming moment where they agree to help hide Aaron's child from Tamora. | |
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Torture Porn | |
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Torture Porn: With all the violence, gore, and torture that occurs in this play, it makes a good candidate for The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples here. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Aaron and Tamora. Between the two of them, they mastermind every bad thing that happens in the play. Between them and Titus, they make a Big Bad Ensemble. | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: The question is settled by the Chocolate Baby. Aaron the Moor comes up with a baby-swap and gets Tamora's children to agree to it, and also kills the Nurse and Midwife since It's the Only Way to Be Sure. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Chiron and Demetrius love their mother and do all their villainy to help her vengeance. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Lavinia is raped, has her hands cut off, and then her tongue cut out by Tamora's sons. Despite being unable to speak, she communicates her plight to her father Titus, and uncle Marcus, by alluding to books that refer to what happened to her, and then using her mouth and limbs to draw the names of her assailants in the sand. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the final act Tamora and her sons Chiron and Demetrius think that Titus is completely mad and visit his house with the intent of laughing at his state and tormenting him further. Thinking him harmless, Chiron and Demetrius stay behind after their mother leaves to laugh at him some more. In the next scene, Titus has them bound, cuts their throats, and prepares to make meat pies out of their flesh to feed to their mother at a banquet. | |
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Characters Dropping Like Flies | |
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Characters Dropping Like Flies: The entire play is a veritable bloodbath featuring not only murder but also rape, torture and cannibalism with more than a 70% kill rate for named characters. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
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Fatal Flaw: Titus' unyielding insistance on tradition is the source of both the disastrous choices he makes in the very first scene, which set the play's gruesome bloodbath inexorably in motion. By insisting on the murder of Alarbus to "appease" the fallen Andronici, he makes a vengeful enemy of Tamora; and by overlooking noble Bassianus and insisting on crowning corrupt and weak-willed Saturninus simply on the basis of the latter being elder, he sets up Rome for awful governance and unintentionally puts Tamora in a powerful position to take revenge on his family. | |
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Familial Cannibalism Surprise | |
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Familial Cannibalism Surprise: Titus serving Tamora meat pies made from her sons is the Trope Codifier. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: In taking her revenge against Titus, Tamora decides to not only destroy his family but also drive him insane. Titus goes insane all right. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Lavinia would rather die than be raped by Chiron and Demetrius. Unfortunately for her, Tamora knew it. This was also Titus' excuse for Offing the Offspring. | |
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Rape and Revenge | |
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Rape and Revenge: Lavinia may no longer be physically capable of killing Chiron and Demetrius herself, but she can sure as hell hold the bowl to catch their blood while her father butchers them. | |
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Obfuscating Insanity | |
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Obfuscating Insanity: Titus really is insane... just not as insane as he convinced Tamora and her sons he was. He's still more than capable of thinking rationally enough to exact his revenge. | |
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Cycle of Revenge | |
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Cycle of Revenge: Tamora's attempts to avenge her son on Titus lead to Titus's attempts to get revenge on Tamora... and so on, and so on. This engine essentially drives the entire plot. | |
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Revenge by Proxy | |
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Revenge by Proxy: Tamora could just kill Titus for sacrificing her son, but she chooses instead to murder Bassianus and subject Lavinia to a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Mirror Character | |
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Mirror Character: Titus and Tamora. Both "love" their kids. Both devoid of mercy for those that plead for it. Both sick nut-jobs. Both willing to kill other people's children in revenge. Both willing to kill their own children, with Titus offing Mutius and Lavinia, and Tamora ordering for her own illegitimate dark-skinned baby with Aaron to be killed. | |
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Sinister Scimitar | |
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Sinister Scimitar: Aaron's weapon of choice, though he only threatens to use it against those who would kill his son. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: Titus is blind to all the signs that Saturninus is corrupt, jealous and small-minded, and that Bassianus would definitely have been the better choice for Emperor. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Titus Andronicus (Theatre) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To Greek mythology The infamous climax of the play is almost definitely an intentional reference to the story of the House of Atreus in Greek Mythology, in which the Cycle of Revenge between the brothers Atreus and Thyestes involves — among other things — Atreus tricking Thyestes into eating his own sons. The story is also a retelling of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela from Creator/Ovid's The Metamorphoses. When Tereus rapes Procne's sister (and thus his own sister-in-law) Philomela and cuts out her tongue (as Chiron and Demetrius did to Lavinia), Procne revenges her sister's rape by killing and cooking Tereus's son (and, incidentally, her own) and serving the meat to Tereus. Aaron refers to Lavinia as "Philomel" when egging Chiron and Demetrius on to rape and mutilate her, while Titus mentions Procne's revenge before killing and butchering Chiron and Demetrius : | |
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Familial Foe | |
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Familial Foe: Aaron the Moor makes it his mission to destroy his former captor, General Titus Andronicus, and Titus’s children, even though most of them oppose Titus at many turns. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Titus goes on one after his daughter is disfigured and raped. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Chiron and Demetrius cut off Lavinia's hands to prevent her from telling who raped her. It does not work. | |
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Tongue Trauma | |
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Tongue Trauma: Lavinia gets her tongue cut out so she can't tell anyone who did this to her. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Titus's sons and his brother give him this when he handed Lavinia, already engaged to her true love, to the new emperor. They become even frustrated when Titus refuses to bury the son he ended up stabbing. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Aaron masterminded practically every evil plot in the play, and when he is finally caught, he proudly boasts about it. | |
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Just Desserts | |
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Just Desserts: Titus does this to Chiron and Demetrius, baking them into pies. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Titus Andronicus receiving the heads of his two sons along with his uselessly-sacrificed hand - after the rape and mutilation of his daughter Lavinia - proves to be this for him. Notably, he doesn't go into a Heroic BSoD but instead briefly goes Laughing Mad before becoming insanely fixed on working toward his revenge. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: Lucius spares Aaron from hanging, because after hearing what a monster the guy is, he feels that a quick hanging death would be too kind. After Titus' revenge is complete, Lucius gives him a much more fitting painful end. | |
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Last of His Kind | |
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Last of His Kind: Lucius is the only survivor of his siblings (and Titus's children) at the end of the play. Might we add, he had 24 brothers and a sister, though only four of them were still alive at the start of the play. | |
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Makeup Is Evil | |
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Makeup Is Evil: Aaron derides other characters for their make-up. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Human sacrifice, rape, murder, dismemberment, mutilation, cannibalism, torture, and more are integral to the plot, and most of these take place graphically on stage. | |
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Offered the Crown | |
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Offered the Crown: Titus is offered the position of Emperor upon returning to Rome, but he turns it down and offers the position to Saturninus. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Titus turns down the throne in favor of backing one of the legitimate heirs, a lawful and honorable act. This set in motion the downfall of himself and both heirs. | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies: Titus serves Tamora an elaborate pie that has two very special secret ingredients. | |
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Post-Rape Taunt | |
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Post-Rape Taunt: Chiron and Demetrius cruelly mock Lavinia after raping her and cutting off her hands and tongue, taunting her about how she can no longer tell anyone what they did. | |
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