Titus Andronicus Criticism

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For many people that think Titus Andronicus is all about violence, well it is mainly from the criticism from “The Pequod” it talks about violent act is style and context in which it is executed whether we respond to violence with shock, laughter or satisfaction like for example the death of Titus’s sons in battle and how he buried them. In Titus Andronicus, explains and tells the reader what Tamora’s sons Demetrius and Chiron did to Titus’s daughter Lavinia. Which revealed Titus’s son kills Tamora’s son, while Tamora tries to explain that it was Titus that killed Lavinia; but at the end of the the last act Titus kills his daughter so she probably wouldn’t have to go through that and he doesn’t have to live the fact that her daughter has been raped. The author shows that how this is a pattering, when Lavinia finally reveals and actually feels appropriate talking about what happened to her the play becomes not just violent but it becomes more violence and it goes downhill from their. From her rape it emphasis both natural and human systems.
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Also how “Critics take aim at the play’s lurid violence,” it reveals about the deaths in Titus and their heads are baked into pies, and how everyone is being killed, says how there are different types of violence throughout the play, but readers would not expect Shakespeare to write these type of plays unless his in one of those phases. Yoshino has different views of the genre to which the play belongs, how in his opinion it will not be hyperbolic that revenge tragedy was dominant form of tragic back in the Elizabethan period. Critics would say Shakespeare's plays were about private vengeance and how there is too many deaths in his