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19 Cards in this Set
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Noble patricians, patrons of my right
Defend the justice of my cause with arms And countrymen, my loving followers, Plead my succesive title with your swords I am his firstborn son that was the last The wore the imperial diadem of Rome Then let my father's honors live in me Nor wrong mine age with this indignity |
Saturninus, saying why he should be emperor, after his father, Caeasar, has died. Shakespeare likes to open his plays with public declarations
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Now madam, are you prisoner to an emperor
To him that for your honor and your state Will use you nobly, and your followers |
Titus Andronicus- telling Tamora she gets to be a prisoner of ROME- again shows how he places Rome at such a high level in his life
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O cruel, irreligious piety!
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Tamora
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For good Lord Titus' innocence in all,
Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs, Then at my suit look graciously on him. Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose, Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart ...... Lest, then, the people, and patricians too, Upon a just survey take Titus' part And so supplant you for ingratitude Which Rome reputes a heinous sin |
Tamora - shows she knows how Rome works
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Titus, I am now incorporate in Rome,
A Roman now adopted happily, And must advise the Emperor for his good. This day all quarrels die Andronicus |
Tamora. THe use of the word incorporate shows that there has been a Roman/Goth fusion= metamorphesis. This a has created a "monstrous" fusion- meaning that Rome is now a monster.
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Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,
Safe ouf of Fortune's shot, and sits aloft, Secure of thunder's crack or lightening flash, Advanced above pale Envy's threatening reach. As when the golden sun salutes the moon .... "So Tamora." |
Aaron's opening speech-set in iambic pentameter. The "So Tamora." is more effective because it cuts of iambic pentameter- used to call attention
Simile: "As when the golden sun.."-compare event in natural world-magnifies |
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And why should he despair that knows to court it
With word, fair looks, and liberality? What, hast thou full often struck a doe And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose? |
Demetrius
Speaks of Lavinia as if she is a deer- dehumanizes her- she belongs to someone else, so they are "poaching" her. Erotic desire is often figured in a venereal nature: the hunt. This metaphor is literalized here because they will actually hunt her. Perhaps calling attention to the type of language used to convey erotic desire |
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The hunt is up, the moon is bright and gray,
The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. Uncouple here, and let us make a bay And wake the EMperor and his lovely bride |
Titus- describing the hunt and the world they are in
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That you affect, and so must you resolve,
That what you cannot as you would achieve, You must perforce accomplish as you may. |
Aaron- Line shows how theatre is highly rhetorical (work is done by language). Language has the ability to conjure realities
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My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad,
When everything doth make a gleeful boast? The birds chant melody on every bush, The snakes lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind And make a checkered shadow on the ground..... Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, Whiles hounds and horns and sweet mmelodius birds Be unto us as is a nurse's song Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep |
Tamora- describes their evil deeds using nature- seems pleasant
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Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
These two have ticed me hither to this place, A barren, detested vale you see it; The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe |
Tamora- telling her sons Demetrius and Chiron how Bassania and Lavinia are making her life miserable. Using nature to describe- making it UNPLEASANT
-Bare stage allows it to be two different things. Gives you an index into what people are thinking, and their interpretation of what their environment is |
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Who have we here? Rome's royal empress,
Unfurnished of her well-beseeming troop? Or is it Dian, habited like her, Who hath abandoned her holy groves To see the general hunting in this forest? |
Bassanius- (brother of Saturninus, husband of Lavinia, seconde eldest son to Caesar)- teasing Tamora, stepping on her dignity
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O, how the monster seen those lily hands
Tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute And make silken strings delight to kiss them for his life. |
Marcus (Titus' brother, tribune in Rome)- speech when he discovers Lavinia, using TREE IMAGERY to describe.
-uses artifical language to describe- perhaps allows us to understand his intense grief (grief is also sensationalized, not just violence) |
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Who is this? My niece, that fies away so fast?-
Cousin, a word. Where is your husband? If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me. If I do wake, some planet strike me down That I may slumber an eternal sleep. |
Marcus- upon discovering Lavinia.
Why isn’t Marcus helping this suffering girl? Time has to stop slightly, so that we can see the magnitude of Marcus’ reaction to Lavinia’s wounds. As if it was a freeze frame, with a voice over. Poetic expression takes lots of time to express emotion. |
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Why, tis no matter, man. If they did hear,
They would not mark me; if they did mark, They would not pity me. Yet plead I must, And bootless unto them. Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones, Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the Tribunes..... |
Titus talking to the stones and Marcus. About how Rome has gone against him and he talks to stones for comfort. The people who once supported him have turned their backs on him. Titus is unaccomodated, unloved. He is trying to find some connections with the natural world. He is also becoming slightly crazy
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O brother, speak with possibility,
And do not break into these deep extremes. |
Marcus-
Marcus tries to keep Titus’ mind in reason. Titus used many metaphors, he is the sea, then the Earth. His mind is becoming de-centered and he can’t centralize his thoughts |
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She's with the lion deeply still in league,
And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back; And when he sleeps will she do what she list. You are a young hunstman. Marcus; let alone. |
TItus-
the scene where the young Lucius delivers the amour and presents to Chrion and Demitrius. There is irony in the speech because when Titus tells Young Lucius there is another way, there could be two ways. One way where in the next generation he does not use violence, or the literal way that Titus does mean. He will show the Young Lucius a cunning way to extract true revenge. |
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"But"? How if that fly had a father and mother?
How would he hang his slender gilded wings And buzz lamenting doings in the ait! Poor harmless fly, That, with his pretty buzzing melody, Came here to make us merry! And thou hast killed him. |
The Young Lucius is freaked out because the disfigured Lavinia is trying to grab his books. Marcus then kills a fly. And Titus gets angry at this act of Cruelty against a fly which may in fact have family.
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Pardon me, sir. It was a black, ill-favored fly,
Like to the Empress' Moor. Therefore I killed him. |
Marcus-
Titus then changes his mind and condones the killing of the fly. What you get in a radical oscillation. He has intense sympathy, but also intense hate. Sympathy for others who die, but he can’t see a way to be sympathetic to the Moor and therefore he can never truly see the redemptive quality of the moment. He can’t learn a beneficial lesson from the evil that has been done unto himself. His brutal personality takes over again when Marcus compares the innocent fly to the Black Moor. |