Titus Andronicus Play Analysis

“Titus Andronicus” is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays. It focuses upon the ideas of revenge, specifically how a man will react when pushed too far. This play is like a horror film in many ways with extreme amounts of violence in almost every act and scene. In this play, it seems normal to kill someone just for revenge. “Titus Andronicus” has no limit to the madness of vengeance and revenge between Titus, Tamora and Aaron. While there are many different perspectives of this play, this one sticks out the most. Tamora is the queen of the Goths and was captured by Rome and had her son executed in front of her own eyes. She wanted revenge on Titus for this, but she was powerless at the time. All of a sudden, Saturninus decided to make her his empress and things began to unfold. She gained power and plotted Titus’ revenge slowly. In one of the scenes, she lets her sons Chiron and Demetrius kill Bassianus, Saturninus’ brother and take away Lavinia and let them rape her [II.3.91-115]. This relates to revenge because Lavinia is Titus’ only daughter. But this play goes deeper than that. There are a lot of hidden meanings and messages in “Titus Andronicus”.
He is also a psychopath that enjoys making people suffer. He is another example of how there is no limit of revenge in “Titus Andronicus” because he is the very reason why there were many murders and violent scenes in the play. Aaron said, “The forest walks are wide and spacious, and many unfrequented plots there are fitted by kind for rape and villainy…”[II.2.114-116]. In this quote, Aaron tells Chiron and Demetrius his plan for them to rape Lavinia and to kill Bassianus in the forest. This is related to his plot of destroying the Andronicus family because Lavinia is the only daughter Titus