Titus Andronicus
in the play Shakespeare uses a variety of language devices which all have there own meaning for revenge in the poem that symbolize how other people feel about the theory of revenge to each of the characters. He shows first how the revenge of tamora towards Titus gradually grows throughout the play for what he had done to her sons at the end of the story as well as the start of the story\play. One language structure Shakespeare uses is a series of metaphors and similes to desribe something in the play to what it is not like when Marcus reacted to Lavinia by saying “if I do wake let a planet strike me down” which shows he doesn’t want to see the pain and suffering of poor Lavinia. He used allusion to show how Titus went from being a proud and humble warrior to a sad and crazy man an example of his craziness was when he reacted to Marcus furiously when all he did was swat a fly as it approached from the sky. Titus before shows his dominance over tamora by sacrificing her sons only for it to lead to the death of him and various members of his family which shows that revenge isn’t always the best solution to end a problem.
Shakespeare introduces the term of ‘innocent victims’ and what he basically means by that is most of the characters have been killed for a plot for no reason and for doing nothing wrong. A person who died in this way was bassianus the emperors brother was killed by tamora and her sons the frame Titus and his sons for the murder because they were the only people standing in here way to live as the emperes of Rome. The death of individuals such as bassianus sends the emperor mad and leads him to murder the sons of Titus Andronicus from the trickory of the sneaky man Aaron. Aaron was the man who had a child with tamora while she was being married to saturninus but to only fall in love with the child of his and tamoras and help Titus to end the reign of the traitor and the goth. This act of treachery was nothing more than another act of revenge from the past of Tamora.
A language device that stands out the most was the sense of Dramatic Irony that Shakespeare uses and this means when the reader or audience know something that the characters do not. An example of dramatic irony is when tamora plotted revenge on the Titus andronicus family for what he had done to her sons. She had started by violating and desimating the only daughter of Titus andronicus. Before when she was watching her children being sacrificed to the gods for the mischief she had brought upon the land, she thought in her mind that she would bring pain and sorrow to Titus family and she did by killing Titus sons and killing Lavinia in a way of stopping her from having a life.
In conclusion I think that the tragedy of the Andronicus family should be taught in school because the meaning isn’t violence and gore its about cosiquence and how one stupid action can bring the gods down on you. This is also themed around revenge and how is portrays how other character think about themselves an example how Titus portrays his thought of revenge to Tamora by feeding her sons to her and by stabbing her with a dagger with the sharpest point. Shakespeare uses these language devices to make the story more suitable and more intruiging to the eye of the reader and of course the audience. In the end its called a tragedy because the family die of revenge overcoming them by making them react to something that someone else did to them , there family or even the people around them.
Revenge is a word that comes up a lot when you are doing an analysis for the story of Titus Andronicus because so many of the characters have there own meaning of revenge like Tamora she is full of emotions because Titus had murdered her sons and she took ‘Revenge’ on him by killing his daughter in a way so she was unable to up hold any task at hand which made Titus not want to see her in pain any more so he put her out of her misery and then put that despicable woman , tamora , to sleep once and for all.
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