Month: January 2015

setting: The tomb of ANDRONICI.

characters: Captain, Titus Andronicus, Lucius and Tamora.

Events:  Titus Andronicus has returned to Rome and has captured the barbarous Goths queen Tamora, she tries to contemplate with Titus Andronicus as Titus has given the order to kill Tamoras’ son she tries to tell Titus that he has just lost 25 of his sons and he knows how it feels to lose them and not to kill her sons as she doesn’t want to go through the same pain as Titus is going through.

Themes: the emotions that you experience when you lose someone who is very close to you.

Quotation: ‘ A mother’s tears in passion for her son: And if thy sons were ever deer to thee, O, think my son to be as deer to me!’

Explanation: This shows how much pain a mother will feel if her child or children were to be executed this could give us a better understanding of what drove people to execute others until it became a normal event.

Setting: the tomb of ANDRONICI

Characters: saturninus, bassianus and Marcus Andronicus

Events: saturninus and bassianus are debating who should be king and Marcus Andronicus then comes onto the scene and tells them both that Titus Andronicus is fit to be emperor as he is an excellent fighter and they both agree.

Themes: explores how 1 person can stop 2 people arguing.

Quotation: ‘that you withdraw you and abate your strength’.

Explanation: This shows how convincing Marcus Andronicus is as he is trying to say that he is weakening his attempt to get the title of emperor.