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What the fuck was his problem? Why did he murder his daughter in cold blood? Titus Andronicus is easily the most shocking piece of literature I've read.

>> No.18793238

>Why did he murder his daughter in cold blood?
Bad writing. If this wasn't by Shakespeare it would be ignored, and maybe a few academics would know of it as an Elizabethan curio

>> No.18793258

Really? He was blinded by vengeance, he evens does that crazy shit with arrows to gods.

>> No.18793265

>>18793238
I get that he had to compete was public executions but that was just needlessly edgy. This play is Silence of the Lambs but everyone is a psychopath.

>> No.18793276

>>18793265
That is Rome, anon. They stabbed Caesar inside the senate.

>> No.18793281

>>18793258
People don't usually kill who they're avenging though. I think what I read most from the play is how people revel in violence when they're permitted to do so. Otherwise, I'm just lost to what point he was making about human nature.

>> No.18793300

>>18793281
Follow-up point. Maybe how people revel in their debts too? That's what revenge is, a debt. Demetrius and Chiron's murder was probably the happiest Titus had been in the whole play.

>> No.18793312

>>18793225
>What the fuck was his problem? Why did he murder his daughter in cold blood?
Titus might be the real basis of the story of Starno the reciters may have added that to the original.

>> No.18793385

>>18793225
iirc, he did it to put her out of her misery?
yeah, it's bizarrely nasty, and kind of dumb, but I still think it's fun

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>>18793265
Bums on seats laddie, bums on seats. He didn't have the confidence in his skills as a dramatist at this stage of his career, so was chucking in everything he could to amuse the plebs.

>> No.18793438

>>18793281
That was an honor killing. They mention it on the wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#Victims_of_rape

She was basically fucked too, no one would marry her and being killed would restore the honor of her family. Because Titus would kill Tamora and die anyway, she would be by herself.

>> No.18793445

>>18793281
Also consider that he did it following the orders of his emperor. Titus is somewhat similar to Coriolanus, he is too 'square' for his own good.

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>>18793276
Caesar was stabbed to death in the Theatre of Pompeius; the senate was being renovated/expanded.