Titus Andronicus | Andronicus (Titus Andronicus)
A proud veteran of forty years' of military campaigns against the enemies of Rome, he is a popular hero. At the beginning of Act I, he is the people's choice to be their next emperor. But Titus is a highly contradictory figure. By the close of that act, he has betrayed his integrity through false pride, harsh inflexibility, and faulty judgment. On the; other hand, by the end of Act III, he has suffered more unspeakable wrongs than "any living man could bear" (V.iii. 127). Pursuing his revenge against those who have violated his daughter, murdered his son-in-law, and executed his sons,...
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