Setting:

Rome, Italy outside the tomb

Characters:

Captain Titus Andronicus Lucius Tamora Chiron Demetrius

Events:

Titus Andronicus returns from the battle against the Goths with 2 prisoners the queen Tamora and her son Alarbus. He is standing outside a tomb where he will place yet another son. Lucius asks to burn Tamora’s son as a tribute/ritual to the Gods. This includes cutting limb by limb off and then the skin and then burn the rest of it. Tamora’s then tries to persuade Titus to change his mind about it to say you have been in this position many times before so don’t break my heart as well. Titus ignores her outcry and goes ahead with it. In the end he places the coffin with his son in the tomb.

Themes:

I think the theme of revenge is the main theme throughout this part.

Quotations:

Titus, unkind and careless of thine own, why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet, to hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?

Explanation:

This quote suggests to me that Shakespeare is asking Titus Andronicus how many more sons will you have to lose in battle. However, he is getting older and therefore is not able to make any more sons so he might eventually end up with no sons. This language feature is a rhetorical question and is designed to put a different thought into our heads as the reader.

Extract A:

Lucius:Give us the proudest prisoner of the  goths,(give us your most valued prisoner)

That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile ad manes feature sacrifice his flesh(we may cut of his arms and leg and put them in a pile for sacrifice)

Before this earthy priron of their bones(there ashes)

That so the shadows be not unappealing(the shadows are satisfied)

Nor we disturb’d with prodigoes on earth(p

Setting:

Temple of the recently  diseased Emperor.79ad

Characters:

Captain,Titus andronicus,Lunits,Tamora,chronic, Demetrius

Events:

Titus andronicus(the new emperor)  announces he wants Tamoras son to use as a sacrifice to the gods. He let’s her know that he has plans to cut of all his limbs and then burn his corpse. Tamora  pleaded and begged and used his own sons deaths as a guilt trap but it never worked.after burning her son,Lucius speaks about the air smelling like perfume/incense. After the sacrifice  Titus burys  another one of his sons that die in battle.

Theme:

Revenge and retaliation.

quotation:

‘Titus, unkind and careless of thine own, why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet to hover on the dreadful of Styx’

explanation:

i see this quote as an rhetorical question from Shakespeare to Titus, he is almost asking him how many sons is he planning to lose and due to his old age he will not be able to make anymore.