Analysis

1. Protagonist: Prince Hal

2. Antagonist: The immaturity
3. Setting: Engld in the early 1400s
4. Classification of the Play: History Play
5. Main Topic: The education of a King. The weak, the family and the power.
6. Mood:
7. Conflict:

 In the First Act, Titus agreed to let his daughter (Lavinia) marry the Emperor
(Saturninus), because he is so loyal to Rome and also to the laws, even though
he knew that his daughter could not be happy. In consequence, Titus kills his
youngest son (Mutius) because he blocked the way where Titus was going to
pass to go after Lavinia. Mutius was willing to help his sister not to get
married, but he met death in the hands of his father.
 Also, in the First Act, Lavinia and Bassanius come into conflict with their
feelings, she doesn’t want to disobey her father and he doesn’t want to betray
his brother but the love between them was stronger.
 In the Second Act, scene II, in a place in the woods, Aaron was thinking about
his thirst for revenge, the murders he planned and his heart full of hate, he
even wondered if it was part of the love he felt for Tamora, after that
Bassianius was stabbed by Chiron and Demetrius, because Bassianus with
Lavinia found Tamora being disloyal to Saturninus. They confronted her,
however Tamora told her sons to avenge their confrontation and this is how
the sons of Tamora assassinate Bassanius and rape Lavinia besides cutting her
tongue and hands, but all those massacres were already planned by Aaron.

8. Definition:

The protagonist wants revenge with the sons of Tamora, for having abused and
mutilated the hands of his only daughter, although he is much attached to the laws of
Rome, but looks for ways to take revenge.
For the other side, the antagonist (Aaron) helps his love (Tamora), to also seek
revenge, because Titus murdered his eldest son, Aaron is the mastermind behind the
destruction of the Andronicus family.
In the end, both take revenge, Titus murders Tamora and also her sons, Aaron sees
that Titus is killed by Saturninus but Aaron is punished by Lucius (eldest son of
Titus).

9. Characters:

Titus Andronicus
 Lucius
 Martius
  First Goth
 Little Lucius
 Aemilius
 Publius
 Sempronius
 Caius Kinsmen to Titus
 Valentine
Aaron
 Tamora
 Demetrius
 Chiron
Neutral characters: Saturninus, Bassanius, Marcus, Mutius, Quintus, Lavinia,
Nurse, clown, a messenger

10. Character analysis

 Titus: He is the main character but not necessary the

innocent victim. He is the “hero” of Rome. Titus is selected
by the people of Rome to be the new emperor but he refuses
this offer due to his already advanced age. In his stead he
chooses the former emperor’s eldest son Saturninus. He's a
stickler for tradition and custom, and he's super loyal to Rome. He's also a
pretty lousy dad.

 Aaron the Moor: He is brought prisoner along with Tamora and her three
sons Alarbus, Demetrius and Chiron. When Titus murders Alarbus as a
sacrifice Tamora and her sons plot their revenge. Aaron, who Tamora is
having an affair with despite her engagement to Saturninus, thus saving her
life uses her newfound power to bring chaos and anarchy. Aaron is always
looking to cause misery (and help Tamora and her sons in their plot for
revenge against the Andronicus).
In the play's final act, Titus's final living son Lucius (who has raised an army
of Goths to combat the corrupt rule of Saturninus and Tamora) comes across
Aaron and recognizes him as the villain who ruined Titus's life. Though
initially wanting to kill both Aaron and his child die, Aaron persuades Lucius
to let the child live a happy life in exchange for a full confession from Aaron.
Aaron here reveals all, from the role he played in the rape of Lavinia, the
murder of Bassianus, and the trick to get Titus to cut off his hand, and the
murder of his two sons, but he doesn´t show any repentance.

“Yes, I’m sorry I hadn’t done a thousand things more… Raping

a girl, or planning how to do it; accusing some innocent person,
and perjuring myself…I have done a thousand dreadful things, as
easily as one would kill a fly; nothing makes me so sad that I can´t
do another thousand”